BatBox | Loppylugs

Submitted by Martin Lewis on 17 February 2013 - 9:34pm

Cover:

Artist:

Miss Kittin

album-ID:

a_82

Nationality:

France

Year:

2 008

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Kittin Is High*BatBox*Grace*Solidasarockstar*Barefoot Tonight*Play Me A Tape*Pollution Of The Mind*Wash ’n’ Dry*Metalhead*Machine Joy*Sunset Strip*Playmate Of The Century*Lightmaker

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_31

Now-num:

Spotify-URL:

2PDDdMPxhgdstAXKa5zud8

Grooveshark-URL:

Batbox/1000172

Short-title:

batBox

nominator-ID:

u_22

Meeting-date:

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

MusicBrainz-URL:

4aaf6271-7a13-3726-a835-e367b07c3f8a

Wikipedia-URL:

BatBox

Spotify-link-type:

album

Discogs-URL:

Miss-Kittin-Batbox/master/38993

Allmusic-URL:

batbox-mw0000751834

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80

reviewed by

Martin Lewis

Frenchie's do it better.

1-5-8-12

2

A tightly produced electronic dance album with a goth theme and strong set of tracks. Some great tongue in cheek lyrics that rightly amuse me …Remember when you said you wanted to go somewhere. It’s bizarre. I gave you a key to my room…. In leather pants here you are! Some other lyrics that would be clichéd if she were British but as a Frenchie I just forgive her. Strong dance rhythms and atmospheric melodies. I’d actually really enjoy dancing to this if I were somehow to end up in a dance club- I'm actually excited by this idea!
72

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

7.2 out of 10 cats

6-7-8-9-13

2-5-11-12

I wouldn’t say that this is a consistently good album but I thought there were some great songs in here. The sequence from tracks 6 to 9 is terrific, ending with my personal favourite Metalhead, where she goes a bit more intense, clinical, darker and percussive. These sort of songs I’m partial to anyway, so I was happy, but I guess you wouldn’t say she’s blazing a trail into new dance territories.

Also there’s a few on here that really aren’t up to much, including the title track, and the quality is mismatched with the better songs to such a degree that even a dyed in the wool album player like myself might consider cherry picking from this one.

The lyrics, on the whole, aren’t particularly strong, in spite of a few exceptions (”Please take a shower of silence” for example). The amusingly clumsy English with a wacky, skewed approach I had anticipated largely doesn’t actually materialise, mostly they sound like a bit of an after thought.

Overall, I could probably describe it as polished, turn of the century, electronic dance music with a few moments of inspiration.
72

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Puuurrrrrrr...

7-8

As a rule I'm not a fan of vocal electronic/dance but this album surprised me. Not once did I tire of playing it, and not once did it annoy me... on the contrary it thoroughly entertained me.

The sound could have been from any period in the last 20 years as it is hard to pinpoint the style to any particular genre. So being so new I suppose there's nothing original in this, but that shouldn't detract from it's quality... there's plenty of individual tracks here. Seeing as she's first and foremost a DJ and producer, the vocals are surprisingly good.

Decent effort.
70

reviewed by

Richard Norbury
65

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

TWATBOX

Surprisngly not bad in the very difficult to do 'dance album' arena, where the track is the king, not the long player. Kittin's voice stops this from being an otherwise dull affair. The music is pretty solid and her teutonci deadpan delivery seals it.