Around the House

Around the House
Studio album by Herbert
Released	27 July 1998 (1998-07-27)
Recorded	January 1997–April 1998
Genre	Electronic electroacoustic
Length	73:50
Label	Phonography
Producer	Herbert
Herbert chronology
Parts Remixed (1996) Around the House (1998) Bodily Functions (2001)
Singles from Around the House
"Going Round" Released: 1997 "Never Give Up" Released: 1997 "So Now..." Released: 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".^[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Muzik	[3]
Pitchfork	8.7/10[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

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.^[2] 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."^[4]

Around the House was named the 96th greatest album of the 1990s by Pitchfork.^[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	Untitled	M. Herbert	0:52
2.	"So Now..."	M. Herbert, D. Siciliano	5:41
3.	"Around the House"	M. Herbert	4:34
4.	"Close to Me"	M. Herbert	6:37
5.	"The Last Beat"	M. Herbert	5:27
6.	"Going Round"	M. Herbert, D. Siciliano	6:55
7.	"This Time"	M. Herbert, D. Siciliano	8:04
8.	"We Still Have (The Music)"	M. Herbert, D. Siciliano	6:27
9.	"In the Kitchen"	M. Herbert, R. Vine	12:12
10.	"Never Give Up"	M. Herbert	11:43
11.	"We Go Wrong"	M. Herbert	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

1. Blackburn, Manuella (2021). "In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3". In Hamer, Laura (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music Since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 229. ISBN 9781108470285. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
2. Bush, John. "Around the House – Herbert". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
3. Bush, Calvin (August 1998). "Herbert: Around the House". Muzik. No. 39. p. 64.
4. Richardson, Mark (14 March 2002). "Matthew Herbert: Around the House". Pitchfork. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
5. Matos, Michaelangelo (2004). "Herbert". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 376. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
6. "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork. 17 November 2003. p. 1. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

External links

• Around the House at Discogs (list of releases)