Stereolab

Their first album since the untimely death of Mary Hansen. You can hear Laetitia Sadier doubling vocals where Hansen should be singing, but tracks like the metamorphic "Cosmic Country Noir" or "Need to Be" (sung in an accent sexier than Serge Gainsbourg's) prove that even without a key member, Stereolab are unstoppable.

More of the same Marxist pop songs, only not as catchy maybe we should be glad that
Stereolab are in a holding pattern. The group lost a singer and guitarist when Mary Hansen
died in a bicycle accident on December 9th, 2002. But the new Stereolab album, Margerine
Eclipse, is neither a reminiscence nor a reinvention - it's more of the same, with gurgling
synthesizers, leisurely tempos and "ba-da-ba" backing vocals. So how come ther... More >