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Paul: "Are you still doing what you did two years ago?" Mark E Smith once replied to a fan at a gig asking them to play a song from their back catalogue. When the punter replied 'yeah', Smith came back with "Well, don't make a career out of it." The Fall had been going less than four years at this point.
Which brings me to this album. Are Stereolab still doing what they did 30 years ago? And is it a good thing? It depends what you think of Stereolab I suppose. I don't mind them and I don't mind this record.
Melodie is a Wound is fab, and there are good bits in Immortal Hands, If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt. 1 and Electrified Teenybop but they are are fleeting and on the whole this record doesn't keep my attention. But I don't mind them making a career out of it.
Ben: Nico deadpan vocals, stylophone instrumentation. ok, yes for maybe an album or two - but a whole career? Come on guys, change it up a bit! No? Oh you’re going to do another hour long album in the same style? Great! Or not. I don’t like the sounds that I’m hearing which means I struggle to get into the songs. Nah they’re not for me.
Dean: It took a while to receive this gift and sometimes gifts go entirely unappreciated then, months later the intent is clear. The wrapping has long since been dispatched and the article has sat within earshot and mulled apon with conscious duty. It inspired little and divulged little promise until I realised it's inner, hidden quality.
Something immediately banal and yet rich, something mature and understated. Something that grows within like a memory. I opened it up again and received a timely reminder that protest need not be loud. It need not be dramatic. It can be quiet and obstinate. It can be private. It can be silent but it's meaning must be cherished and admired. And that is where I am now 🌟
Stu: Like a lot of bands we all listened to in our youth and when I say that I mean when are brains were set at the maximum cerebral suction, we were always expectant and ready to be thrilled!! I’ve mentioned it before, within 5 seconds of listening to ‘Once More’ by the Wedding Present I was smitten, same with ‘Revolutionary Spirit, by The Wild Swans. You’ll have many of your own I know!! Well ‘French Disko’ was another 5 second LOVELY BITE ❤️
I’ve religiously purchased every LP by STEREOLAB and they’ve never failed me. They’ve shown enough different shades to always be interesting to my ears. They’ve rocked, they’ve lounged, they’ve been playful! This LP is playful. Stakes of melody. A particular part of me has always had a very soft spot for the French 🇫🇷 in music and Laticia has it in spades. I own lots of French psychedelic music and it really does tickle my fancy. I love her voice and the delivery.
HOMF starts off playfully and then Ariel Troubles really pulls me in, another cooing vocal addition as well as Tim Gane. love the staccato vocal on Melodie is a wound and the extended outro, very much like The Weddoes deliver so well! Immortal Hands shape shifts nicely Electrified Teenybop! Great title, driving melody, harks back to early LPS! Love this track ❤️
Love Esemplastic Creeping Eruption with plenty of space sound effects, I love the French tracks, as already mentioned, I love the language (hated it at school, wish I had studied it now, maybe now?)
Colour Television is lovely ❤️ As track 13 makes its way in to my earlobes I’m happy to have spent an hour with my dear friends STEREOLAB ❤️❤️ ⭐️❤️🔥
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