OTHER PEOPLES PLACE - LIFESTYLE OF LAPTOP

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Lifestyles of the Laptop Café is the only studio album by The Other People Place, a recording project by American electronic music producer James Stinson. It was released on September 3, 2001 through Warp. Stinson's identity as the album's producer was not confirmed until after his death in 2002. Largely overlooked at the time of its release, Lifestyles of the Laptop Café has since received retrospective critical acclaim. After being out of print for several years, the album was reissued by Warp in 2017. Veering away from the complex science fiction themes of Stinson's work with DREXCIYA, Lifestyles of the Laptop Café is a more subdued album in content and mood.[2][3] The album's lyrics—often limited per song to single, repeated sentences—express feelings of yearning and loneliness.[2] The opening track, "Eye Contact", revolves around a spoken monologue in which a man falls in love with a woman in an Internet café, beginning a romantic narrative that plays out over the course of the remaining tracks.[4] Musically, the album draws on influences from electro, techno and electropop.