is Nico guest-starring on the album as well?

/I see what you did there...

ouch!

yikes.


I will appreciate Stereolab more if I can get past the hipster-over-hype this time.

Sterolab borrow quite a bit from certain classic 70s "Kraut"-rock stuff.
Can,Faust,Neu! and etc.
Which is no doubt cool but I resent dumb 20 something hipsters ranting about how "original" they are.

I haven't been paying very close attention, but isn't one of the original singers dead now?

I don't get the headline :(

craigdamage: Which is no doubt cool but I resent dumb 20 something hipsters ranting about how "original" they are.

Stereolab have been around since the late 80s.

kin of like going waterskiing with kirsty maccoll

treecologist: craigdamage: Which is no doubt cool but I resent dumb 20 something hipsters ranting about how "original" they are.

Stereolab have been around since the late 80s.
Neu! and Faust were around in the 70s, though.


But I like Stereolab.

I guess Fab Four Suture doesn't count as an album?

Cagey B: I haven't been paying very close attention, but isn't one of the original singers dead now?

Yes, Mary Hansen got hit by a car in 2002. She did backup vocals primarily...while Laetitia can double-track her own harmonies on record, I think their live show suffered quite a bit from her loss.

Doctor Hooey: I don't get the headline :(

Stereolab's Mary Hansen killed in bicycle accident (new window)

dadio86: kin of like going waterskiing with kirsty maccoll

Actually, she was scuba diving, but I know what you mean.

chi_tino: Doctor Hooey: I don't get the headline :(

Stereolab's Mary Hansen killed in bicycle accident (new window)

i met her and got her autograph after a show. :( The rest of the band couldn't be bothered to meet anyone who stood outside in the dead of a Chicago winter for an hour. Ah well.

Transient was the last album of theirs that i enjoyed. Ketchup and Loops did nothing for me. Nothing stood out as i listened. Maybe i'll give them another listen soon.

/liked them WAY before it was cool

Ask twenty-something hipsters about Stereolab. You'll find out most of them don't listen to, or know anything about them, outside of a "Yeah, they're cool". Just like all the hip nineties bands (Pavement, Guided by Voices...). Hipsters today have their Deerhunter, Devendra Bernhart, Sufjan Stevens...

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmple Heeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaadphooooone Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind FTW


Crayons... crayons...

/loves me some S'lab when they go 'out there' and report back... not so much when they stay at home and sip tea and lounge.

I saw them a couple of years ago. Yea, they miss Mary, but, damn it was a very fine show. I wouldn't call them normal 90's mus-ass, as some of the bands listed in the comments, went very LoFi back then. Stereolab wasn't that. I call them my eurotrash band, with lead bass playing where it matters. They're fun, and talented musicians. I came away very impressed.

It's either going to be Nintendo beeps and bloops or a white woman singing French jazz vocals over a vintage 1960s horn line. Take your pick.

apeiron242: Ketchup and Loops did nothing for me.

!!! You're dead to me.

"Stereolab have been around since the late 80s"


I think I am indeed aware of that.
The music they are clearly inspired by comes from the early 70s and elsewhere. Those "twenty something" hipsters I was speaking of were from the 90s and are now in their late 30s.

I'm pretty sure my previous post indicated past tense.

There was this big full on "retro" craze type thing here in Dallas in the early 90s amongst certain musician cliques championed by so-called "hipsters" or whatever. Stereolab and The Delta 72 were two of the darlings of this scene.

I suppose I liked the music ok but I found the dumb fashion victims who bought cool and "ironic" retro clothes at the local thrift stores to be a bunch of annoying poseurs. These folks made up the core of Stereolab fans. Not Stereolab's fault.

I tend to listen to music and try and ignore the rest.

FeedTheCollapse: is Nico guest-starring on the album as well?

/I see what you did there...

so win!!I wish i could've incorporated that in the headline somehow...
this is probably my meanest submission so far(approuved)... i was wondering if the mods were going to "get it" ... glad they did....but they didnt like my headline about toni braxton consulting the remaining members of Morphine for advice about her comeback tour or the one about the new joy division running shoes

stereolab are great, i came to hear them much too late

influenced by german bands faust and can, definitely,
tangerine dream etc.

art rok, tasty and inventive

HIPSTERS!!!HIPSTERS!!!HIPPSTERS!!! Is quickly becoming the LIBS!!!LIBS!!!LIBS!!! of the music tab.

/Who the fark cares what kind of clothes their fans wear?

craigdamage
I tend to listen to music and try and ignore the rest.

Try harder.

craigdamage: ...I resent dumb 20 something hipsters ranting about how "original" they are.

I don't think that anyone has ever ranted about Stereolab being originators of their style and sound.


/That headline is tasteless and unfunny

they're releasing a single from the new album via itunes on the 28th. should hit other download services around then.

What a farking troll headline.

hmmm, well i hope the ratio on the new album is better than the last few. it's been a struggle to like more than one or two songs. 'rainphase' was great but the rest of that last one made me cringe.

i am grumpy that i am getting older and less tolerant. Stuff like Grizzly Bear would have made me go annoy the crap out of my friends by telling them how awesome they were....now i just want to slap the band around for making a bunch of half-finished songs.