First Album (Miss Kittin & The Hacker album)

First Album
Studio album by
Miss Kittin & The Hacker
ReleasedOctober 2001
Genre
LabelInternational DeeJay Gigolo
Producer
  • Miss Kittin
  • The Hacker
Miss Kittin chronology
Or
(2001) 		First Album
(2001) 		On the Road
(2002)
The Hacker chronology
Intimités
(1999) 		First Album
(2001) 		Rêves Mécaniques
(2004)
Singles from First Album
  1. "1982"
    Released: 1998
  2. "Frank Sinatra"
    Released: 2000
  3. "Stock Exchange"
    Released: 10 February 2003
  4. "The Beach"
    Released: 2003

First Album is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Miss Kittin & The Hacker, released in 2001. It includes the tracks "1982" and "Frank Sinatra", two anthems of the late-1990s electroclash scene that had been first released on the EP Champagne (1998).[1][2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic link
Armchair DJ link
Exclaim!Favorable link
Robert Christgau(dud)[3]
Rolling Stone link
URB link

The album received generally favorable reviews. It earned a collective score of 68 out of 100 from Metacritic.[4] Adam Bregman from Allmusic commented, "This French-Swiss duo pumps out retro-'80s-style disco beats and silly lyrics, creating a fun, goofy, ironic vibe [...] They seem to be trying to reach over and above that generally stale genre, and they mostly succeed."[5]

Fact placed First Album at number 92 on its "100 best: Albums of the Decade" list.[6] Mixer placed First Album at number five on its "Best Albums of 2002" list.[7] Muzik placed it at number 15 on its list of the "Top 30 Albums of 2001".[8] Resident Advisor ranked the album number 94 on its list of the "Top 100 albums of the 2000s".[9]

Commercial performance

Despite not charting, First Album sold over 50,000 copies worldwide.[10]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Miss Kittin; all music is composed by The Hacker

No.TitleLength
1."Life on MTV"4:22
2."Frank Sinatra"3:53
3."Walk On By"5:04
4."1982"5:17
5."Stock Exchange"5:22
6."You and Us"4:25
7."Flexibility"6:25
8."L'homme dans l'ombre"4:15
9."Slow Track"2:55
10."Nurse"5:13
11."Stripper"4:57
12."DJ Song"3:03
13."Walking in the Sunshine"5:14
14."Frank Sinatra (2001)"4:53
15."The Beach"4:41

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Gagne, Justin (2011). "Velle - Couture Soundtracks - Winter 2010". Velle. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  2. ^ Kellman, Andy. "Miss Kittin > Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Miss Kittin". Robert Christgau.
  4. ^ "First Album Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More". Metacritic. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  5. ^ Bregman, Adam (2001). "First Album - Miss Kittin & The Hacker". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  6. ^ Foxx, Trilby (2009). "100 best: Albums of the Decade - FACT magazine: music and art". Fact. The Vinyl Factory. Archived from the original on 1 February 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  7. ^ "Best Albums of 2002". Metacritic. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  8. ^ "Rocklist.net...Muzik End Of Year Lists..." Rocklist.net. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  9. ^ "RA Poll: Top 100 albums of the '00s". Resident Advisor. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
  10. ^ "RA: The Hacker biography". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 26 February 2011.