Games of the XXI Olympiad (album)

Games of the XXI Olympiad
Studio album by Black Cab
Released	November 2014
Genre	Indie rock
Length	67:23
Label	Interstate 40 Music
Producer	Woody Annison, Black Cab
Black Cab chronology
Call Signs (2009) Games of the XXI Olympiad (2014)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Age	[1]
The Australian	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Courier Mail	[4]

Games of the XXI Olympiad is the fourth album by Melbourne electronica band Black Cab. It was released in 2014.

The album continues the theme of their 2009 Call Signs album, which was inspired by Cold War-era East Germany, with the new album themed on the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where a state-sanctioned regimen of performance-enhancing drugs produced a generation of chemically superhuman East German athletes. A version of the album was prepared for release in 2012 but was abandoned when the band decided it was neither complete nor very good. Songs were stripped down and extended, in the process transforming "Supermädchen" from four minutes to almost 10.^[5]

The album, far more electronica-based than its predecessors, was produced in multiple sessions with different producers and mixers, including Woody Annison, Simon Polinski and former Death in Vegas member Tim Holmes. Two earlier singles, "Combat Boots" (2011) and "Sexy Polizei" (2010) were also included.^[6]

Track listing

(all songs by Black Cab)

1. "Opening Ceremony" — 2:32
2. "Supermädchen" — 9:49
3. "Victorious" — 6:34
4. "Performance Center Obertauern" — 3:19
5. "Kornelia Ender" — 4:48
6. "Go Slow" — 6:07
7. "Problem Child" — 4:13
8. "Combat Boots" — 4:41
9. "Little Blue Ones" — 5:56
10. "My War" — 5:42
11. "Sexy Polizei" — 4:07
12. "State Plan 14.25" — 5:07
13. "Closing Ceremony" — 4:27

Personnel

• James Lee — guitar, keyboards
• Andrew Coates — vocals, programming, keyboards
• Wes Holland — live drums

Additional musicians

• Steve Law — sequences, drones
• Shags Chamberlain — bass, moog
• Richard Andrew — juno, guitar, drums
• Anthony Paine — bass
• Alex Jarvis — guitar
• Dyko — electronic percussion
• Lucy Buckeridge — backing vocals
• Monique Brumby — backing vocals
• Raffaela Jungbauer — spoken word

References

1. Patrick Emery, The Age, 7 November 2014
2. Andrew McMillen, The Australian, 29 November 2014
3. Michael Dwyer, Rolling Stone Australia, 10 November 2014
4. Noel Mengel, Courier Mail, 29 November 2014
5. Mathieson, Craig (21 November 2014). "Hail the Black Cab". The Age. Melbourne. p. 12. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
6. Street, Andrew P. (20 November 2014). "Games of the XXI Olympiad review". Mess+Noise. Retrieved 21 November 2014.