Peng!

Peng! is the debut studio album by English-French rock band Stereolab. It was released on 26 May 1992 by Too Pure in the United Kingdom.[9] The album was issued in the United States on 13 June 1995 by Too Pure and American Recordings.[10] A remastered edition of the album was released on 9 November 2018 by Too Pure and Beggars Arkive.[11]

Peng!
Studio album by Stereolab
Released	26 May 1992
Recorded	April 1992
Genre	Experimental pop[1] indie pop[2]
Length	47:47
Label	Too Pure
Producer	Robbs Stereolab
Stereolab chronology
Super-Electric (1991) Peng! (1992) Low Fi (1992)
Stereolab studio album chronology
Peng! (1992) Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (1993)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
Pitchfork	7.5/10[4]
Record Collector	[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	6/10[7]
Uncut	7/10[8]

The album's title (a German onomatopoeia for a loud pop or bang) and cover art are derived from a comic strip named "Der tödliche Finger" that appeared in a 1970 issue of Hotcha, a Swiss underground newspaper.[12] Different panels of the same strip were adapted into cover art for other early Stereolab releases, and remain popular icons for the band.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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"	Charles Baudelaire	3:51
10.	"Stomach Worm"		6:35
11.	"Surrealchemist"		7:13
Total length:			47:47

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[13]

Stereolab

• Lætitia Sadier – vocals, Moog synthesizer
• Tim Gane – guitar, Farfisa organ, Moog synthesizer
• Joe Dilworth – drums
• Martin Kean – bass

Production

• Roger Askew – engineering
• Robbs – engineering, mixing, production
• Stereolab – mixing, production

References

1. Phares, Heather. "Peng! – Stereolab". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
2. Sherburne, Philip (18 July 2019). "Stereolab: Mars Audiac Quintet". Pitchfork. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
3. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Stereolab". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
4. Corcoran, Nina (18 July 2019). "Stereolab: Peng!". Pitchfork. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
5. Atkins, Jamie (January 2019). "Stereolab: Peng!". Record Collector. No. 488. p. 103.
6. Sarig, Roni (2004). "Stereolab". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 779–81. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
7. Strauss, Neil (1995). "Stereolab". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 375–76. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
8. Martin, Piers (February 2019). "Stereolab: Peng! / The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"". Uncut. No. 261. p. 49.
9. Peng! (press advertisement). Too Pure. 1992. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
10. "Just out". CMJ New Music Monthly. No. 22. June 1995. p. 55. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
11. "Stereolab – Peng!". Beggars Arkive. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
12. Schneider, Martin (27 April 2017). "The intriguing origins of 'Cliff', the cartoon character that's all over Stereolab's early album art". Dangerous Minds. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
13. Peng! (liner notes). Stereolab. Too Pure. 1992. PURE CD 11.CS1 maint: others (link)

External links

• Peng! at official Stereolab website
• Peng! at Discogs (list of releases)
• Peng! at MusicBrainz (list of releases)