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quoted 46 lines That, my friends, is the title to the new Stereolab album.. Assuming it's
>That, my friends, is the title to the new Stereolab album.. Assuming it's
>the working title for the advance copy a friend of mine has. I listened to
>it last night, and it's a vast improvement over Dots and Loops. There were
>fifteen songs listed, but it seems like there's a lot more than that. It was
>on a tape, so a lot of times we didn't know if one song had ended and
>another had begun, or if it was still the same song. But, these are the
>songs that were listed.
>Fuses;
>People do it all the time;
>The free design;
>Blips Drips and Strips;
>Italian Shoes Continuum;
>Infinity Girl;
>The Emergency kisses;
>DP Hop Detonation;
>puncture in the radax permutation;
>Velvet Water;
>Blue Milk;
>Caleidoscopic Gaze (yes it was spelled with a C );
>Strobo Acceleration;
>The Spiracles;
>Come and play in the milky night;
>
>There were a lot of jazz overtones, with a few orchestral moments. A lot of
>the songs would start off with trumpets, sometimes muted, and build into the
>beats, very Stereolab sounding Moog and blips and whatnot. It was a lot
>different in most respects from their past stuff, but you could still
>definitely tell it was Stereolab. Latetia did all vocals. Her usual mix of
>English and French. Lots of times it was just kind of humming, you know.
>Blips Drips and Strips reminded me a lot of Dots and Loops. With a title
>like that, I kind of figured it would. But luckily it was the good parts of
>Dots and Loops. There was no cover art on the tape. It was just a dubbed
>copy with a xeroxed cover that looked like the usual press release advance
>copy cover. I would definitely suggest that this album should be bought by
>any one who likes Stereolab and if you dig jazz too, it will really put a
>smile on your face. There were some homages I think to John Coletrane, and
>perhaps Miles' late sixties stuff, along with the usual Stereolab beats and
>sounds. But I would definitely say it's a vast improvement over Dots and
>Loops. Borrowing some of the good ideas from that album, while moving ahead
>in a different direction than any of the last albums. I was quite pleased
>with it. And it should be out in a month.
>
> Mark
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bill wright wwright@clemson.edu <
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~wwright>