Throbbing Pouch

Throbbing Pouch
Studio album by
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  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.
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