Plat du Jour

Plat du Jour is a studio album by British electronic musician Matthew Herbert. It was released on Accidental Records in 2005.[5] The album was created using the sounds of food preparation and production.[6] "Celebrity" features a vocal contribution from Dani Siciliano.[2]

Plat du Jour
Studio album by Matthew Herbert
Released	August 8, 2005 (2005-08-08)
Genre	Electronic
Length	59:42
Label	Accidental Records
Producer	Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert chronology
Plat du Jour: The Appetiser EP (2005) Plat du Jour (2005) Score (2007)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Exclaim!	favorable[2]
The Guardian	favorable[3]
Pitchfork	6.1/10[4]
PopMatters	[5]
Stylus Magazine	A−[6]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Plat du Jour received an average score of 73% based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Tim O'Neil of PopMatters gave the album 8 stars out of 10, saying, "the juxtaposition of Herbert's precise, seemingly innocent and light-hearted rhythms with heavier themes of economic exploitation and death creates an effective and practical dialectic."[5] Rob Woo of Exclaim! called it "one of the most bizarre concept albums to date".[2]

The Wire listed the album on their "2005 Rewind" list.[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Truncated Life of a Modern Industrialised Chicken"	7:41
2.	"These Branded Waters"	5:28
3.	"Pigs in Shit"	0:19
4.	"An Empire of Coffee"	7:04
5.	"Celebrity"	4:05
6.	"Sugar"	5:50
7.	"An Apple a Day..."	1:32
8.	"White Bread, Brown Bread"	4:08
9.	"Fatter, Slimmer, Faster, Slower"	3:58
10.	"The Final Meal of Stacey Lawton"	5:38
11.	"The Nine Seeds of Navdanya"	4:15
12.	"Waste Land"	6:03
13.	"Nigella, George, Tony and Me"	3:47

References

1. "Plat du Jour by Matthew Herbert". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
2. Woo, Rob (September 1, 2005). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". Exclaim!. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
3. Empire, Kitty (July 10, 2005). "Matthew Herbert, Plat du Jour". The Guardian. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
4. Richardson, Mark (August 4, 2005). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
5. O'Neil, Tim (January 5, 2006). "Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour". PopMatters. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
6. Siegel, Jeff (July 25, 2005). "Matthew Herbert – Plat Du Jour". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
7. "2005 Rewind". The Wire. December 2007. Retrieved March 17, 2018.

External links

• Plat du Jour at Discogs (list of releases)