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> I nabbed a copy of Stereolab's new album "Dots and Loops"
> yesterday...another wonderful disc. Ten songs, 65 minutes...one track is 17
> minutes long!
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> Again, the band is making forward steps. There is very little of the
> group's trademark groove-rock sound on this one. It's much more based in
> medium tempos and melody -- heavily steeped in that French-bubblegum
> tradition. This is probably their most "French-sounding" album ever, I
> would say. There's also a noticeable jungle influence creeping in. Members
> of Tortoise and Mouse on Mars add significant input, and the production is
> wonderfully clean but crunchy. Tortoise's John McEntire contributes some
> neat marimba licks, and there's also more horns found than on any other
> Stereolab album.
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> Song titles: Brakhage, Miss Modular, The Flower Called Nowhere, Diagonals,
> Prisoner of Mars, Rainbo Conversation, Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
> (that's the 17-minute one), Parsec, Ticker Tape of the Unconscious,
> Contronatura.
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> Release date Oct. 6th in the UK (most likely October 7th in the US).
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