{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}} {{Use British English|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox album | name = Throbbing Pouch | type = studio | artist = Wagon Christ | cover = Throbbing-pouch-cover.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|1995|03|20|df=yes}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = {{flatlist| * Trip hop * instrumental hip hop * sampledelia * downtempo * electro }} | length = {{duration|m=76|s=12}} | label = Rising High | producer = Wagon Christ | prev_title = Phat Lab Nightmare | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = Tally Ho! | next_year = 1998 }}
'''''Throbbing Pouch''''' is a studio album by English electronic musician Luke Vibert. His second studio album under the alias Wagon Christ, it was released on 20 March 1995 by Rising High Records.
==Musical style== AllMusic critic Sean Cooper described ''Throbbing Pouch'' as an album of "eazy-listening instrumental hip-hop" music "scattered with dime-store samples and goofy melodies".<ref name="allmusic"/>
==Release== ''Throbbing Pouch'' was released on 20 March 1995 by Rising High Records.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1995/Music-Week-1995-03-18.pdf|title=New Releases: Albums|magazine=Music Week|date=18 March 1995|access-date=8 June 2021|pages=34–35}}</ref> The artwork for the album was designed by Jon Black.<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Throbbing Pouch|others=Wagon Christ|publisher=Rising High Records|year=1995|id=RSN CD30|type=liner notes}}</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|last=Cooper|first=Sean|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/throbbing-pouch-mw0000181479|title=Throbbing Pouch – Wagon Christ|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=20 July 2015}}</ref> | rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' | rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="rs-guide">{{cite book|last=McLeod|first=Kembrew|author-link=Kembrew McLeod|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|chapter=Luke Vibert|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/850 850]}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Select'' | rev3score = 4/5<ref name="select">{{cite magazine|last=Grundy|first=Gareth|title=Wagon Christ: Throbbing Pouch|magazine=Select|issue=59|date=May 1995|page=102}}</ref> }}
Reviewing ''Throbbing Pouch'' for ''Select'', Gareth Grundy described the album as a "missing link" between Aphex Twin and Mo' Wax.<ref name="select"/> He stated that "Vibert creates beautiful, evocative slivers of contemporary electro that manage to be both soothing and engaging."<ref name="select"/> At the end of 1995, ''NME'' listed it as the year's 26th best album.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/features/1995-2-1045368|title=NME's best albums and tracks of 1995|website=NME|date=10 October 2016|access-date=6 January 2018}}</ref>
For AllMusic, Sean Cooper said that on ''Throbbing Pouch'', "Luke Vibert's arranging skills are in rare form, reordering elements and dropping tracks in and out with liquid, barely noticeable aplomb."<ref name="allmusic"/> Cooper noted that the album "has long been regarded as one of trip-hop's most influential releases."<ref>{{cite web|last=Cooper|first=Sean|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/wagon-christ-mn0000229210/biography|title=Wagon Christ|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref> Kembrew McLeod cited it as "a classic of the trip-hop canon" in ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'' (2004),<ref name="rs-guide"/> and it was included at number 37 in ''Fact''{{'}}s 2015 list of the best trip hop albums of all time.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Twells|first1=John|author1-link=Xela (musician)|last2=Fintoni|first2=Laurent|url=https://www.factmag.com/2015/07/30/50-best-trip-hop-albums/|title=The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time|website=Fact|date=30 July 2015|access-date=22 December 2016}}</ref> Turk Dietrich of the American experimental music duo Belong wrote that ''Throbbing Pouch'' "may be the only LP that rivals" DJ Shadow's 1996 release ''Endtroducing.....'' "in the genre of sampledelia."<ref>{{cite web|last=Dietrich|first=Turk|url=https://www.self-titledmag.com/primer-belong-on-essential-electronic-records-from-the-90s-that-werent-released-on-warp/|title=Primer: Belong On … Essential Electronic Records From the '90s (That Weren't Released On Warp)|website=Self-Titled|date=25 March 2011|access-date=16 June 2018}}</ref> Similarly, critic Simon Reynolds stated in ''Spin'' that ''Throbbing Pouch'' "easily rivals" ''Endtroducing'' "as a masterpiece of emotive, down-tempo sampladelia."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Reynolds|first=Simon|author-link=Simon Reynolds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wK_Oz2Yz7IC&pg=PT21|title=Wagon Christ: Tally Ho!|magazine=Spin|volume=14|issue=12|date=December 1998|access-date=20 December 2021|pages=185–86}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_writing = Luke Vibert | title1 = Intro | length1 = 0:22 | title2 = Reedin | length2 = 4:43 | title3 = Down Under | length3 = 8:16 | title4 = Phase Everyday | length4 = 7:35 | title5 = Throbbing Pouch | length5 = 5:24 | title6 = Rexcist | length6 = 2:23 | title7 = Floot | length7 = 7:08 | title8 = Intermission | length8 = 2:47 | title9 = Pull My Strings | length9 = 5:11 | title10 = Spotlight | length10 = 5:50 | title11 = Scrapes | length11 = 8:03 | title12 = Night Owls | length12 = 2:41 | title13 = E-Z Listener | length13 = 5:19 | title14 = Vibes | length14 = 1:27 | title15 = Underground Level | length15 = 2:31 | title16 = Ring Piece | length16 = 4:26 | title17 = All My Fingers | length17 = 2:06 | total_length = 76:12 }}
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==External links== * {{Discogs master|32187|Throbbing Pouch}}
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Category:1995 albums Category:Luke Vibert albums Category:Trip hop albums by English artists Category:Instrumental hip-hop albums Category:Sampledelia albums Category:Downtempo albums Category:Electro albums by English artists