''Palookaville'' is the fourth and final studio album by English

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electro ...

producer

Fatboy Slim Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook, 31 July 1963), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, DJ, and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist ...

. It was first released on 4 October 2004 in the United Kingdom by

Skint Records Skint Records is a Brighton and Hove based dance music record label owned by JC Reid, Tim Jeffery and Damian Harris. It was created as a sublabel of Loaded Records, also founded by Reid and Jeffery. Along with Wall of Sound, the label was a le ...

and a day later in the United States by

Astralwerks Astralwerks is an American record label primarily focused on electronic music owned by Universal Music Group. Its material is distributed via Capitol Music Group in the United States. The label was founded in 1993 and, in its early years, featur ...

. The album was nominated for the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album.

Promotion

Football club

Brighton and Hove Albion F.C. Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club (), commonly referred to simply as Brighton, is an English professional football club based in the city of Brighton and Hove. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league ...

temporarily named their

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after the name of that album following their sponsorship deal with Skint Records."Fatboy calls the tune"
, '' The Argus'', 4 October 2004

Critical reception

''Palookaville'' was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At

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, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an

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score of 53 based on 24 reviews. In a review for

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, critic reviewer David Jeffries wrote: "''Palookaville'' could stand one more trimming pass, but it gives Cook's canon the needed depth. Now there's a Fatboy Slim record for that rainy day and one the long-haired freaky people can enjoy."

Track listing

Personnel

* Norman Cook - samples, keyboards, synthesizer, programming, bass * Simon Thornton - guitar, mixing, engineering *

Damon Albarn Damon Albarn (; born 23 March 1968) is an English-Icelandic musician, singer-songwriter and composer, best known as the frontman and primary lyricist of the rock band Blur and as the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtua ...

- vocals on "Put It Back Together" *

Lateef the Truthspeaker Lateef Daumont, better known by his stage name Lateef the Truthspeaker, or mononymously as Lateef, is a hip hop artist from Oakland, California (United States). He is a member of several hip hop groups such as Latyrx, Lateef and the Chief, and t ...

- vocals on "Wonderful Night" and "The Journey" *

Justin Robertson Justin Robertson is an English electronic musician, DJ, author, artist and record producer. Discography DJ Mix albums *Journeys by DJs *Journeys by DJs Select Tape *Cream Live *Bugged Out *Imprint *Art of Acid Lionrock Albums *An Instinc ...

- vocals, bass and guitar on "Push and Shove" * Sharon Woolf - additional vocals on "Put It Back Together" and "Push and Shove" *

Bootsy Collins William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is an American bass guitarist and singer. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic, Collins established himself as one of the leading ...

- vocals on "The Joker''" * Jonny Quality - vocals and guitar on "Long Way from Home"

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2004 albums Astralwerks albums Fatboy Slim albums Skint Records albums