Electronic (album)
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| Studio album by Electronic | ||||
| Released | 28 May 1991 28 February 1994 (remastered) |
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| Recorded | December 1989–early 1991 | |||
| Studio | Clear Studios, Manchester | |||
| Genre | Alternative dance, house | |||
| Length | 47:17 (UK) 52:29 (international) |
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Factory (UK) Virgin (Europe) Warner Bros. (Australia, Canada, Japan, US) |
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| Producer | Bernard Sumner, Johnny Marr | |||
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| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A |
| NME | 8/10 |
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| Vox | 10/10 |
Electronic is the self-titled debut album by British supergroup Electronic, formed by Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr. It was first released in May 1991 (see 1991 in music) on the Factory label, and reissued in remastered form in 1994 by Parlophone after Factory collapsed.
The album was a commercial success, reaching number 2 in the United Kingdom and selling over a million copies worldwide. By the year 2000 Electronic had sold 240,000 copies in the USA.
The album tracks' titles and lyrics were used as random messages appearing during the title characters henshin in the Japanese Super Sentai television series Denji Sentai Megaranger.
The bulk of Electronic was written in 1990, with sessions beginning that January at Johnny Marr's home studio in Manchester. "Gangster" dated from an aborted solo album Bernard Sumner began work on in the mid-eighties, while "Reality" was written around 1988 when he and Marr first began working together. "The Patience of a Saint" also predated the album, having been written with Pet Shop Boys soon after their collaborating with singer Neil Tennant on "Getting Away with It" in 1989.
Several other songs were also completed by August 1990 (namely "Idiot Country", "Tighten Up", "Soviet", "Get the Message" and "Try All You Want") as they were performed live at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles when Electronic supported Depeche Mode (although "Try All You Want" was played as an instrumental and several songs had working titles).
The LP subtly fused Marr's guitar playing with Sumner's synthesiser expertise, most prominently on "Idiot Country", "Feel Every Beat", "Tighten Up" and "Get the Message". Lyrically the subject matter was varied, from the aggressive targeting of rave culture by police in Britain ("Idiot Country" and "Feel Every Beat") to monogamy and emotional ambivalence ("Reality", "Try All You Want"). "The Patience of a Saint" featured a witty, sardonic duet between Sumner and Neil Tennant.
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