Goodbye Swingtime

Goodbye Swingtime is the first studio album by The Matthew Herbert Big Band. It was released on Accidental Records in 2003.

Goodbye Swingtime
Studio album by The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Released	19 May 2003 (2003-05-19)
Genre	Electronic, jazz
Length	58:26
Label	Accidental Records
Producer	Matthew Herbert
The Matthew Herbert Big Band chronology
Goodbye Swingtime (2003) There's Me and There's You (2008)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Exclaim!	favorable[1]
Pitchfork	7.6/10[2]
PopMatters	mixed[3]
San Francisco Bay Guardian	favorable[4]

Critical reception

Mark Richardson of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.6 out of 10, calling it "a highly original and engaging record that's also one of the last things one would expect for a producer who made his name with house music."^[2] Marshall Bowden of PopMatters said, "Goodbye Swingtime is both interesting and innovative, but somehow it just doesn't allow the listener to connect emotionally with either the big band side or the electronic side of the project."^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Turning Pages"	7:45
2.	"Everything's Changed"	4:44
3.	"Fiction"	4:14
4.	"The Three W's"	5:55
5.	"Chromoshop"	5:50
6.	"The Battle"	4:58
7.	"Misprints"	6:13
8.	"The Many and the Few"	5:01
9.	"Simple Mind"	5:20
10.	"Stationary"	8:29

Charts

Chart	Peak position
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[5]	26
UK Jazz & Blues Albums (OCC)[6]	6