Cobra & Phases Group Play Volt

Stereolab

Stereolab / Cobra & Phases Group Play Volt
Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock
Format: CD Album
Released: Tue 21 Sep 1999
Catalogue Number: EA62409.2

E-mail this product information to a friend E-mail this product information to a friend.
Add to Shopping Cart

Add to Wishlist
Price:  AUD$20.50
Import
To Order
* Prices displayed are in Australian Dollars and, where applicable, GST inclusive
Description:
Stereolab includes: Laetitia Sadier (vocals); Tim Gane (guitar).
After an ear-pricking opening ("Fuses") peppered with hints of Art Ensemble of Chicago-like percussive free jazz, it's business as usual for Stereolab. For 1997's DOTS AND LOOPS, the group took cues from Mouse on Mars and Tortoise and assembled its distinctive synth whooshes and intricate but perfectly polished pop via hard-disc. COBRA brings performance back into play, with post-production duties split between High Llamas maestro Sean O'Hagan and Chicago avant-garde poster boys Jim O'Rourke and John McEntire. Stereolab makes their job easy by providing some of its most ambitious, sophisticated, yet unfailingly poppy compositions yet.
A few more shockers in line with "Fuses" would have been welcome, but myriad small surprises and instantly addictive melodies substitute for the usual more startling changes in direction. "Italian Shoes/Continuum" stirs up Stereolab's space age Moog-music to a Euro prog-rock frenzy. The vibe-alicious "The Free Design" pays tribute to the baroque choral-pop of the lost '70s legends. On such marathon excursions as "Blue Milk" and "Caleidoscopic Gaze," Stereolab packs ideas--not to mention funky analog workouts, subtle breakbeats, and chiming guitars--into every turn. Throughout, wall-to-wall counterpoint harmonies, Sadier/Gane's classy Continental songcraft, punchy horns, and O'Rourke's slightly woozy string arrangements make for an endlessly enchanting 75 minutes.

Details:

  • Discs: 1

Track Listing:

1.  Fuses
2.  People Do It All the Time
3.  Free Design, The
4.  Blips, Drips and Strips
5.  Italian Shoes Continuum
6.  Infinity Girl
7.  Spiracles, The
8.  Op Hop Detonation
9.  Puncture in the Radax Permutation
10.  Velvet Water
11.  Blue Milk
12.  Caleidoscopic Gaze
13.  Strobo Acceleration
14.  Emergency Kisses, The
15.  Come and Play in the Milky Night

Availability
This is an import product, and as such may take longer to source stock, we estimate that despatch will take 14-20 days after ordering, click here for more information regarding import products.


More music4me > Rock > Rock
More Stereolab