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Women in Technology
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Album Details: Women in Technology

Release Date:02/25/1997
Label:Capitol
UPC:724385612923

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    women in technology

    By Steve  May 14, 2004

    Pros: sweet and lo (fi)

    Cons: nothing much

    this album has a nice homemade feel about it, so refreshing after so much of that overproduced stuff the big studios churn out . simple almost naive lyrics and dreamy background synths, hand percussion create something which is greater than the sum ...of its parts. It is an immensely listenable album, there arent any really duff tracks, it glides nicely from one song to another. Great late night music Read more Less

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    the lotto flower in the swamp

    By nekrorider  Oct 19, 2000

    hey i couldn't believe that this album was made by the same guys who recorded i could never be your woman...
    every single song in the cd is pseudo experimental crap except that song.... which is one of the greatest of the decade

Pro Reviews: Women in Technology

  • All Music Guide

    Jyoti Mishra's second full-length album under the "band" name White Town continues the move away from the indie guitar pop of his earliest releases, first seen on 1996's Abort Retry Fail? EP. Simply recorded, mostly on a Macintosh computer in Mishra's bedroom, with Mishra playing everything except four tracks' worth of guitar, there's a pleasantly homemade feel to the album; hand percussion, piano, and acoustic guitars coexist with the synths and samplers, but even the few entirely electronic tracks have a warm, organic vibe. The album's best-known track, of course, is the enormous hit "Your Woman," a playful piece of gender-bending built around samples from Lew Stone's 1932 jazz hit "My Woman" and the static that opens the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." An infectious piece of pure synth pop, "Your Woman" sounds like it could have been released on Rough Trade around 1981. It's an entirely atypical track, though. Most of the rest of Women in Technology consists of low-key, soft... pop songs like the tender, almost jazzy "A Week Next June" and the romantic opener "Undressed." Other songs, like the puckish "The Function of the Orgasm" and "Theme for an Early Evening American Sitcom," have the D.I.Y. feel of White Town's earlier records, albeit with a more synthesized tone. Women in Technology is a good-to-great album, though it's easy to see how the masses charmed by "Your Woman" might have been disappointed by that track's lack of resemblance to the rest of the album. - Stewart Mason, All Music Guide Read more Less

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White Town

The "band" White Town consists of Jyoti Mishra, who writes and records the music almost entirely on his own, with occasional help from other musicians. Although best -- in fact, almost entirely -- known for the fluke 1997 hit "Your Woman," White Town's mix of musical, political, and social influences makes Mishra one of the more intriguing, although frustratingly incons... Read more