Peng!

This article is about the Stereolab album. For other uses, see Peng (disambiguation).

Peng! is the debut studio album by English-French band Stereolab.^[11] It was released on 26 May 1992 by Too Pure in the United Kingdom.^[12] The album was issued in the United States on 13 June 1995 by Too Pure and American Recordings.^[13] A remastered edition of the album was released on 9 November 2018 by Too Pure and Beggars Arkive.^[14]

Peng!
Studio album by Stereolab
Released	26 May 1992 (1992-05-26)
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)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[4]
Pitchfork	4.8/10 (1995)[5] 7.5/10 (2019)[6]
Record Collector	[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	6/10[9]
Uncut	7/10[10]

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.^[15] 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

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

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

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[16]

Stereolab

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

Production

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

Charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[17]	6

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, ed. (2011). "Stereolab". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (concise 5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
4. Woodard, Josef (23 June 1995). "Pong!". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
5. "Stereolab: Peng!: Pitchfork Review". Archived from the original on 26 November 2001. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
6. Corcoran, Nina (18 July 2019). "Stereolab: Peng!". Pitchfork. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
7. Atkins, Jamie (January 2019). "Stereolab: Peng!". Record Collector. No. 488. p. 103.
8. Sarig, Roni (2004). "Stereolab". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 779–781. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
9. Strauss, Neil (1995). "Stereolab". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 375–376. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
10. Martin, Piers (February 2019). "Stereolab: Peng! / The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"". Uncut. No. 261. p. 49.
11. True, Everett (23 May 1992). "Sultans of Peng — Peng! by Stereolab". Melody Maker. Vol. 68, no. 21. p. 31.
12. Peng! (press advertisement). Too Pure. 1992. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
13. "Just out". CMJ New Music Monthly. No. 22. June 1995. p. 55. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
14. "Stereolab – Peng!". Beggars Arkive. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
15. 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.
16. Peng! (liner notes). Stereolab. Too Pure. 1992. PURE CD 11.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
17. "Distribution: Indie Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 13 June 1992. p. 16. Retrieved 28 May 2021.

External links

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