''The Only Thing I Ever Wanted'' is the second album by

Psapp Psapp ( or ) is a British experimental electronica band. The band, a duo consisting of Carim Clasmann and Galia Durant, are sometimes credited with inventing a musical style known as ''toytronica'', a form of electronica made with toys and toy ...

. The album reached the

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and the US Billboard 200 Albums, selling in excess of 8,000 copies in total.

Track listing

Personnel

Psapp *Carim Clasmann *Galia Durant Additional personnel *Markus Liebetanz - drums, "Hi" and "Hill Of Our Home" *Ben Eshmade - French horn, "This Way" and "Upstairs" *Gwen Cheeseman - violin, "This Way" *

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- samples, "King Of You" *Pete Norman - mastering

Alternate version

*A two-disc promotional version of the album was released in the UK, marked "not for sale" on the discs. Disc one is the same as the regular release, while disc two features instrumental versions of all of the album's songs. There is a discrepancy in disc two's track listing; "Tricycle" was actually mastered as track five and "New Rubbers" as track six.

Notes

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" was the first single from the album to be released in Europe, while " Hi" was the first single released in the U.S. *"King of You" was later featured on Sybarite's ''Cut out Shape'' as "Runaway." Under this title, it was featured in a

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episode of

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called "

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." *As an example of Psapp's use of found sounds, some of the sounds used on "Needle and Thread" include: **The bass drum sound is made of two cardboard boxes; one wet, one dry. **Some of the additional percussion sounds are "bits of wood being hit together." **The low rattling at the end of the song is Durant's mother's garden table. **The repeated melody throughout is a

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. **A

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. **Another thumping sound was made with drumsticks banging on the couch. **Kitchen utensils. *The sound samples used for "Upstairs" were recorded at Clasmann and Durant's shared flat shortly before it was demolished. The pair "spent hours recording the creak of the floorboards and the dry electricity of the carpet. They knocked on the hollow spaces in the walls; they stomped up the staircase."

References

External links

Psapp official websitePsapp jumble shop (official)The Only Thing I Ever Wanted at Domino RecordsPsapp at Domino Records
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