Stereolab

Chilly computer-graphics cover art and half their songs sung in French can't disguise the
fact that – tweeters in woofers' clothing – Stereolab come on ambient but emerge as pop.
Nico-meets-Debbie Harry vocals (often achieving a breezy polyphony) and irresistible
Kraftwerk-style keyboard blips propel "Three Dee Melodie" and "International Coloring
Contest" into a twee ozone where Burt Bacharach sleeps with the virtuosos of V... More >

Not quite hooky enough to reconcile me to a world that needs Marxist background music ("Wow and Flutter," "Fiery Yellow")