Around the House
{{Infobox album
| name = Around the House
| type = studio
| artist = Herbert
| cover = HerbertAroundTheHouse.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1998|07|27|df=y}}
| recorded = January 1997–April 1998
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{flatlist|
| length = {{Duration|m=73|s=50}}
| label = Phonography
| producer = Herbert
| prev_title = Parts Remixed
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Bodily Functions
| next_year = 2001
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Around the House
| type = studio
| single1 = Going Round
| single1date = 1997
| single2 = Never Give Up
| single2date = 1997
| single3 = So Now...
| single3date = 1998
}}
}}
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".{{cite book |last1=Blackburn |first1=Manuella |editor1-last=Hamer |editor1-first=Laura |title=The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music Since 1900 |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9781108470285 |page=229 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wTorEAAAQBAJ&dq=ultimate+care+ii+musique+concrete&pg=PA229 |access-date=5 October 2022 |chapter=In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/around-the-house-mw0000660053|title=Around the House – Herbert|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=1 December 2015|last=Bush|first=John}}
| rev2 = Muzik
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|title=Herbert: Around the House|magazine=Muzik|issue=39|date=August 1998|last=Bush|first=Calvin|page=64}}
| rev3 = Pitchfork
| rev3score = 8.7/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3835-around-the-house/|title=Matthew Herbert: Around the House|website=Pitchfork|date=14 March 2002|access-date=15 October 2017|last=Richardson|first=Mark}}
| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book|chapter=Herbert|last=Matos|first=Michaelangelo|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/376 376]}}
}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/|title=Top 100 Albums of the 1990s|website=Pitchfork|date=17 November 2003|access-date=1 December 2015|page=1}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 =
| writer1 = M. Herbert
| length1 = 0:52
| title2 = So Now...
| writer2 = M. Herbert, D. Siciliano
| length2 = 5:41
| title3 = Around the House
| writer3 = M. Herbert
| length3 = 4:34
| title4 = Close to Me
| writer4 = M. Herbert
| length4 = 6:37
| title5 = The Last Beat
| writer5 = M. Herbert
| length5 = 5:27
| title6 = Going Round
| writer6 = M. Herbert, D. Siciliano
| length6 = 6:55
| title7 = This Time
| writer7 = M. Herbert, D. Siciliano
| length7 = 8:04
| title8 = We Still Have (The Music)
| writer8 = M. Herbert, D. Siciliano
| length8 = 6:27
| title9 = In the Kitchen
| writer9 = M. Herbert, R. Vine
| length9 = 12:12
| title10 = Never Give Up
| writer10 = M. Herbert
| length10 = 11:43
| title11 = We Go Wrong
| writer11 = M. Herbert
| length11 = 5:11
}}
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
- Matthew Herbert – production, piano, Rhodes piano, guitar, bass guitar, violin, backing vocals
- Dani Siciliano – vocals
- R. Vine – guitar, bass guitar
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Discogs master|46928|Around the House}}
{{Matthew Herbert}}
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