NOT MUSIC by STEREOLAB
Tracks
- Everybodys Weird Except Me
- Supha Jaianto
- So Is Cardboard Clouds
- Equivalences
- Lelekato Sugar
- Silver Sands
- Two Finger Symphony
- Delugeoisie
- Laserblast
- Sun Demon
- Aelita
- Pop Molecules (Molecular Pop 2)
- Neon Beanbag
Description
Over the Summer of 2007 Stereolab reconvened at Instant Zero, their studio in Bordeaux, to record 32 luminous new songs which would become two distinct albums - 2008's "Chemical Chords" and their new release, "Not Music".The recordings began when Tim Gane started messing with "a series of about seventy tiny drum loops" on top of improvised chord sequences using piano and vibraphone. "Building them up from there - later slowing the tracks down or speeding them up - a totally new way of doing songs for us…"
"Not Music" is Stereolab’s twelfth album and is released during the band’s self-imposed hiatus from recording and touring. The album will be released via Stereolab’s own imprint Duophonic UHF Disks.
Theirs is a rich, overflowing palette, readily able to blur the gulf between Os Mutantes and the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra, merge Krzysztof Komeda with the Velvet Underground, Francoise Hardy with Neu! and Burt Bacharach with Esquivel. A nice blend, in other words, with ingredients plucked assiduously from pop’s coolest outposts: 50’s lounge pop, Rive Gauche chanson, Brazilian tropicalia, North American art rock, East European film music, Krautrock, hi-fi test recordings, library music and more.
