Reviews
"...VIVA! LA WOMAN is...bulging with off-the-wall ideas and strategies....the songs are well-crafted ruminations on desire and dinner - what could possibly be more attractive than that?", Ranked #10 on Spin's List of the "20 Best Albums of '96.", "...sonic savants who go nutty mixing disparate ingredients, like avant-garde trumpet with bossa nova bass lines and sugary non-sequitur lyrics....kitschy club music, as kooky and lovable as Hello Kitty." - Rating: A-, 9 (out of 10) - "...Yuka Honda's dub-influenced sampling melts and melds different types of white noise...and echoes a global mix of instruments....VIVA! LA WOMAN is also a romantic comedy...", Ranked #27 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., Recommended-"...Cool, Smart and Deeply Deeply Funky....Just Lucky, I Guess...", "...Cibo Matto has spun its oddball vision and limited technical prowess into creative gold, rocketing from East Village obscurity to high-concept product in record time...", Ranked #90 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
