First Album (Miss Kittin & The Hacker album)
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- Miss Kittin
- The Hacker
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| Released | October 2001 | |||
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| Label | International DeeJay Gigolo | |||
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First Album is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Miss Kittin & The Hacker, released in 2001. It includes the tracks "1982" and "Frank Sinatra", two anthems of the late-1990s electroclash scene that had been first released on the EP Champagne (1998).[1][2]
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 68/100[3] |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Christgau’s Consumer Guide |  [5] |
| Rolling Stone | [6] |
| Uncut | 7/10[7] |
| URB |  [8] |
Adam Bregman from AllMusic commented, "This French-Swiss duo pumps out retro-'80s-style disco beats and silly lyrics, creating a fun, goofy, ironic vibe [...] They seem to be trying to reach over and above that generally stale genre, and they mostly succeed."[9]
Fact placed First Album at number 92 on its "100 best: Albums of the Decade" list.[10] Mixer placed First Album at number five on its "Best Albums of 2002" list.[11] Muzik placed it at number 15 on its list of the "Top 30 Albums of 2001".[12] Resident Advisor ranked the album number 94 on its list of the "Top 100 albums of the 2000s".[13]
Commercial performance
Despite not charting, First Album sold over 50,000 copies worldwide.[14]
