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- Date Released: August 25, 1998
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock, Lounge
- Label: Matador
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We Say...
Pizzicato Five's initial Matador releases chronicled and compiled composer/producer Konishi Yasuharu and singer Nomiya Maki's aesthetic of honoring vintage styles and sounds with a contemporary DJ sensibility. The Japanese duo's 1999 offering downplays their dance floor connection in favor of fanciful string and horn arrangements, vocal duets between Maki and various guest starts and confident song sequencing that puts the more experimental tracks (the jungle jazz of "Rolls Royce," the Sgt. Pepper-esque psychedelia of "Magic Twin Candle Tale") at the front of the album, and saves the cartoon-y crowd-pleasers (the one-two punch of "Playboy Playgirl" and "La Regle du Jeu") and the prettiest pieces (a blissful homage to early '70s Sly Stone, "Such A Beautiful Girl Like You") for the second half. Lower on kitsch than their previous work but still high on pop-art magpie deconstructionist chic, Playboy & Playgirl celebrates collectors of both analogue vinyl and lonely hearts, with a romanticism that belittles neither obsession.
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They Say...
Playboy & Playgirl begins with the kind of collage-heavy imagined soundtrack that marked Happy End of the World; with that out of the way, they get back to the inspired, eclectic popcraft that is their strength. Hookier and more danceable than their previous album, this is a welcome return to songwriting for the dynamic duo. Think Burt Bacharach without the self-pity, with a smidgen of Motown and Stax. Keyboard timbres run the gamut of the Pizzicato imagination from faux-harpsichord to spacy funk. Singer Nomiya Maki puts her unpretentious stamp over everything from Sgt. Pepper's pomp to '60s R&B horns to symphonic dancefloor beats to introspective pastorals. While P5 may be in with the lounge crowd, they never feel superior to their cheesy predecessors; avoiding the sometimes smug, reactionary irony of the new exotica, Yasuharu Konishi's diverse influences are held together by his all-embracing love of the pop spectrum. A joyous record. [Note: Playboy & Playgirl was released in Japan in 1998 under the title The International Playboy & Playgirl Record; Matador's 1999 American release cuts the third track, "International Pizzicato Five Mansion," and substitutes "La Règle du Jeu" later in the album's running order.]
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| 01. |  |
La Depression |
2:16 |
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| 02. | |
Rolls Royce |
6:34 |
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| 03. | |
A New Song |
4:20 |
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| 04. | |
Week-End |
4:04 |
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| 05. | |
Magic Twin Candle Tale |
5:13 |
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| 06. | |
Concerto |
4:29 |
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| 07. | |
Such A Beautiful Girl Like You |
4:00 |
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| 08. | |
Playboy Playgirl |
5:10 |
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| 09. | |
La Regle Du Jeu |
4:20 |
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| 10. | |
I Hear A Symphony |
3:47 |
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| 11. | |
Drinking Wine |
4:25 |
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| 12. | |
The Great Invitations |
4:09 |
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| 13. | |
Stars |
4:22 |
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13 Total Tracks, 57:09 Total Length
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Credits
- Pizzicato Five - Main Performer // Haruo Kubota - Horn Arrangements // Konishi Yasuharu - Producer // Konishi Yasuharu - Recording Coordinator // Mitsuo Shindo - Art Direction // Bread & Butter - Performer // Hirose Osamu - Engineer // Hirose Osamu - Mixing // Takenaka Akihiko - Engineer // Takenaka Akihiko - Mastering // Takenaka Akihiko - Mixing // Satoh Tomonori - Executive Producer // Kato Yoshyuki - Recording Coordinator // Kato Hisashi - Performer // Suzuki Momoko - Performer
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