Around the House explained

Around the House
Type:studio
Artist:Herbert
Cover:HerbertAroundTheHouse.jpg
Recorded:January 1997 - April 1998
Label:Phonography
Producer:Herbert
Prev Title:Parts Remixed
Prev Year:1996
Next Title:Bodily Functions
Next Year:2001

Around the House is a 1998 studio album by British electronic musician Herbert. It is an electroacoustic album using "samples of washing machines, toasters and toothbrushes, processed into swinging grooves".[1]

Critical reception

John Bush of AllMusic deemed Around the House "much more suited to straight-ahead dance music than Herbert's previous work" and stated that Herbert "proves quite adept" at creating backing music for the album's featured vocalist Dani Siciliano. Pitchfork reviewer Mark Richardson described Around the House as "a bit more focused on sound than song" compared to its 2001 follow-up Bodily Functions; while finding Bodily Functions a stronger album, he admitted that "this could well be a matter of which record I heard first" and concluded, "Both albums are loaded with music of exceptionally high quality."

Around the House was named the 96th greatest album of the 1990s by Pitchfork.[2]

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Blackburn . Manuella . Hamer . Laura . The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music Since 1900 . 2021 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 9781108470285 . 229 . https://books.google.com/books?id=wTorEAAAQBAJ&dq=ultimate+care+ii+musique+concrete&pg=PA229 . 5 October 2022 . In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3.
  2. Web site: Top 100 Albums of the 1990s. Pitchfork. 17 November 2003. 1 December 2015. 1.