What's That Noise?

What's That Noise?
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1989 (1989-04)
GenreElectronic, house, alternative hip hop
LabelTommy Boy/Reprise/Warner Bros.
25974 (US)
Big Life (UK)[1]
Ahead of Our Time (UK)
ProducerColdcut
Coldcut chronology
What's That Noise?
(1989)
Some Like It Cold
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert ChristgauB[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

What's That Noise? is the debut album by Coldcut, released in 1989.[4]

Guests on the album include: Lisa Stansfield on "People Hold On" and "My Telephone", Mark E. Smith (the Fall) on "(I'm) In Deep", Junior Reid on "Stop This Crazy Thing", Queen Latifah on "Smoke 1" and Yazz on "Doctorin' the House".[2]

The album peaked at No. 20 on the UK Albums Chart[6] and at No. 103 on the Australian ARIA chart.[7]

  1. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 254.
  2. ^ a b Stephen Cook. "What's That Noise review by AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Coldcut". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE. pp. 458–459.
  5. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 149.
  6. ^ "COLDCUT". Official Charts. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Coldcut ARIA chart history, received from ARIA in May 2024". ARIA. Retrieved 14 July 2024 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.