Music Review

Viva! La Woman (1996)

Cibo Matto
Reviewed by Michele Romero | Jan 26, 1996
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Cibo Matto; Genre: Rock

Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto (which roughly means ''food crazy'' in Italian) are sonic savants who go nutty mixing disparate ingredients, like avant- garde trumpet with bossa nova bass lines and sugary non-sequitur lyrics. The result, Viva! La Woman, (including a cover of ''The Candy Man'') is kitschy club music, as kooky and lovable as Hello Kitty. A-

Originally posted Jan 26, 1996 Published in issue #311 Jan 26, 1996 Order article reprints

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