From Bill Wright Sent Thu, Aug 19th 1999, 17:49
forwarded from another list.... >That, my friends, is the title to the new Stereolab album.. Assuming it's >the working title for the advance copy a friend of mine has. I listened to >it last night, and it's a vast improvement over Dots and Loops. There were >fifteen songs listed, but it seems like there's a lot more than that. It was >on a tape, so a lot of times we didn't know if one song had ended and >another had begun, or if it was still the same song. But, these are the >songs that were listed. >Fuses; >People do it all the time; >The free design; >Blips Drips and Strips; >Italian Shoes Continuum; >Infinity Girl; >The Emergency kisses; >DP Hop Detonation; >puncture in the radax permutation; >Velvet Water; >Blue Milk; >Caleidoscopic Gaze (yes it was spelled with a C ); >Strobo Acceleration; >The Spiracles; >Come and play in the milky night; > >There were a lot of jazz overtones, with a few orchestral moments. A lot of >the songs would start off with trumpets, sometimes muted, and build into the >beats, very Stereolab sounding Moog and blips and whatnot. It was a lot >different in most respects from their past stuff, but you could still >definitely tell it was Stereolab. Latetia did all vocals. Her usual mix of >English and French. Lots of times it was just kind of humming, you know. >Blips Drips and Strips reminded me a lot of Dots and Loops. With a title >like that, I kind of figured it would. But luckily it was the good parts of >Dots and Loops. There was no cover art on the tape. It was just a dubbed >copy with a xeroxed cover that looked like the usual press release advance >copy cover. I would definitely suggest that this album should be bought by >any one who likes Stereolab and if you dig jazz too, it will really put a >smile on your face. There were some homages I think to John Coletrane, and >perhaps Miles' late sixties stuff, along with the usual Stereolab beats and >sounds. But I would definitely say it's a vast improvement over Dots and >Loops. Borrowing some of the good ideas from that album, while moving ahead >in a different direction than any of the last albums. I was quite pleased >with it. And it should be out in a month. > > Mark > > > bill wright xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx <http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~wwright>