Peng!

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Peng!
Peng! cover
Studio album by Stereolab
Released May, 1992
Recorded  ???
Genre Post-rock
Length 47:47
Label Too Pure UK
Beggars Banquet US
Producer(s)  ???
Professional reviews
Stereolab chronology
Switched On
(1992)		 Peng!
(1992)		 Space Age Batchelor Pad Music
(1993)


Peng! is the first full length album from Stereolab, originally released in May 1992. In Peng!, the lines between Krautrock, Dream Pop and easy listening are blurred, which is reminiscent of their definitive sound: post rock. The album features an interpretation of Charles Baudelaire's "Enivrez-Vous," a poem mixed with a remarkably calm tune. Additionally, the lyrics of "Peng! 33" borrow loosely from the opening of pages of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the "33" in the title is probably a refence to German rock band Neu!'s habit of indicating the RPM at which several of the songs from their second album, Neu! 2, were played.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks by Gane and Sadier, except where noted.

  1. "Super Falling Star" – 3:16
  2. "Orgiastic" – 4:44
  3. "Peng! 33" – 3:03
  4. "K-Stars" – 4:04
  5. "Perversion" – 5:01
  6. "You Little Shits" – 3:25
  7. "The Seeming and the Meaning" – 3:48
  8. "Mellotron" – 2:47
  9. "Enivrez-Vous" (Baudelaire, Gane, Sadier) – 3:51
  10. "Stomach Worm" – 6:35
  11. "Surrealchemist" – 7:13
Stereolab
Tim Gane | Lætitia Sadier | Simon Johns | Andy Ramsay | Dominic Jeffrey | Joseph Watson | Joseph Walters
Martin Kean | Joe Dilworth | Russel Yates | Mick Conroy | Mary Hansen | Sean O'Hagan | Duncan Brown | David Pajo | Richard Harrison | Simon Johns | Gina Morris | Katharine Gifford | Morgane Lhote
Discography
Albums:

Peng! | Space Age Batchelor Pad Music | Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements | Mars Audiac Quintet | Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center | Emperor Tomato Ketchup | Dots and Loops | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night | The First of the Microbe Hunters | Sound-Dust | Margerine Eclipse
Compilations:

Switched On | Refried Ectoplasm | Aluminum Tunes | ABC Music | Oscillons from the Anti-Sun | Fab Four Suture | Serene Velocity (A Stereolab Anthology)
EPs:

Super 45 | Super-Electric | Low Fi | Crumb Duck | Simple Headphone Mind | Captain Easychord | Instant 0 in the Universe
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