Throbbing Pouch

Throbbing Pouch
Studio album by
Wagon Christ
Released20 March 1995 (1995-03-20)
Genre
Length76:12
LabelRising High
ProducerWagon Christ
Wagon Christ chronology
Phat Lab Nightmare
(1994) 		Throbbing Pouch
(1995) 		Tally Ho!
(1998)

Throbbing Pouch is a studio album by English electronic musician Luke Vibert. His second studio album under the alias Wagon Christ, it was released on 20 March 1995 by Rising High Records.

Musical style

AllMusic critic Sean Cooper described Throbbing Pouch as an album of "eazy-listening instrumental hip-hop" music "scattered with dime-store samples and goofy melodies".[1]

Release

Throbbing Pouch was released on 20 March 1995 by Rising High Records.[2] The artwork for the album was designed by Jon Black.[3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
Select4/5[5]

Reviewing Throbbing Pouch for Select, Gareth Grundy described the album as a "missing link" between Aphex Twin and Mo' Wax.[5] He stated that "Vibert creates beautiful, evocative slivers of contemporary electro that manage to be both soothing and engaging."[5] At the end of 1995, NME listed it as the year's 26th best album.[6]

For AllMusic, Sean Cooper said that on Throbbing Pouch, "Luke Vibert's arranging skills are in rare form, reordering elements and dropping tracks in and out with liquid, barely noticeable aplomb."[1] Cooper noted that the album "has long been regarded as one of trip-hop's most influential releases."[7] Kembrew McLeod cited it as "a classic of the trip-hop canon" in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004),[4] and it was included at number 37 in Fact's 2015 list of the best trip hop albums of all time.[8] Turk Dietrich of the American experimental music duo Belong wrote that Throbbing Pouch "may be the only LP that rivals" DJ Shadow's 1996 release Endtroducing..... "in the genre of sampledelia."[9] Similarly, critic Simon Reynolds stated in Spin that Throbbing Pouch "easily rivals" Endtroducing "as a masterpiece of emotive, down-tempo sampladelia."[10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Luke Vibert

No.TitleLength
1."Intro"0:22
2."Reedin"4:43
3."Down Under"8:16
4."Phase Everyday"7:35
5."Throbbing Pouch"5:24
6."Rexcist"2:23
7."Floot"7:08
8."Intermission"2:47
9."Pull My Strings"5:11
10."Spotlight"5:50
11."Scrapes"8:03
12."Night Owls"2:41
13."E-Z Listener"5:19
14."Vibes"1:27
15."Underground Level"2:31
16."Ring Piece"4:26
17."All My Fingers"2:06
Total length:76:12

References

  1. ^ a b c Cooper, Sean. "Throbbing Pouch – Wagon Christ". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. ^ "New Releases: Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 18 March 1995. pp. 34–35. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  3. ^ Throbbing Pouch (liner notes). Wagon Christ. Rising High Records. 1995. RSN CD30.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ^ a b McLeod, Kembrew (2004). "Luke Vibert". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 850. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  5. ^ a b c Grundy, Gareth (May 1995). "Wagon Christ: Throbbing Pouch". Select. No. 59. p. 102.
  6. ^ "NME's best albums and tracks of 1995". NME. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  7. ^ Cooper, Sean. "Wagon Christ". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  8. ^ Twells, John; Fintoni, Laurent (30 July 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time". Fact. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  9. ^ Dietrich, Turk (25 March 2011). "Primer: Belong On … Essential Electronic Records From the '90s (That Weren't Released On Warp)". Self-Titled. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  10. ^ Reynolds, Simon (December 1998). "Wagon Christ: Tally Ho!". Spin. Vol. 14, no. 12. pp. 185–86. Retrieved 20 December 2021.