Blue Wonder Power Milk

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Blue Wonder Power Milk

Studio album by Hooverphonic

Released

1998-08-11

Genre

Trip hop, Electronic, Dream pop

Label

Epic

Professional reviews

All Music Guide link
Pitchfork (7.1/10) link

Hooverphonic chronology

A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
(1996)

Blue Wonder Power Milk
(1998)

The Magnificent Tree
(2000)

Blue Wonder Power Milk is the second album by the Belgian band Hooverphonic, the first one featuring current lead singer Geike Arnaert. The singles released from this album are "This Strange Effect", "Lung", "Club Montepulciano" and "Eden".

The album's title was parodied in "Wonder Milky Bitch", a song by the band Air. The photograph on the cover is the interior of the Atomium in Brussels.^{[citation needed]}

1 Track listing
2 Musical structure
3 Musicians
4 References

[edit] Track listing

"Battersea" (Alex Callier) – 3:50
"One Way Ride" (Callier) – 3:22
"Dictionary" (Callier) – 3:32
"Club Montepulciano" (Callier) – 3:41
"Eden" (Callier) – 3:33
"Lung" (Callier) – 2:44
"Electro Shock Faders" (Callier) – 3:07
"Out of Tune" (Frank Duchêne) – 3:26
"This Strange Effect" (Davies) – 3:55
"Renaissance Affair" (Callier) – 3:25
"Tuna" (Bartsoen, Callier) – 3:48
"Magenta" (Callier) – 4:51
"Neon" (hidden track) – 3:06 - (Aka "Blue Wonder Power Milk"^[1] in the UK release, "Mild"^[2] in the US release)

The song, "This Strange Effect" made its debuted on a commercial for the Motorola SLVR phone. "Eden" was featured in an American cell phone commercial for the Cingular 8525 in 2006. These connections dramatically spread Hooverphonic's popularity.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Musical structure

Blue Wonder Power Milk is mainly composed by dance club beats and strings. Most songs featured on Blue Wonder Power Milk are guided by light strings, making the album fall into genres of indie pop, dream pop, and trip-hop.^[3]