{"id":7065,"date":"2025-06-06T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:40:45","slug":"shindig-164-stereolab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7065","title":{"rendered":"Shindig! #164 \u2013 Stereolab"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As their first new album in 15 years takes everyone (themselves included) by surprise, STEREOLAB are still crafting an yper-sound like no other, wondrously suspended between past and future yet never content to rest on its laurels. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CAMILLA AISA is your guide through four decades of audacious noise bursts and loops, reborn bachelor pad music and tireless calls for\u00a0<\/span>la resistance<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The original version of Stereolab\u2019<\/span>s hymn to la resistance<\/i>, by then spelled \u2018<\/span>French Disco\u2019<\/span>, appeared on the Jenny Ondioline <\/i>EP; the title track had been the lead single of The Groop\u2019<\/span>s second full-length, Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements<\/i>. Still retaining some of the shoegaze-adjacent guitar abrasiveness of Peng!<\/i>, the album\u2019<\/span>s references and samples (from Ant\u00f4nio Carlos Jobim to Moog pioneers Perrey & Kingsley) revealed Stereolab to be indie-pop\u2019<\/span>s most musically literate and voracious practitioners. \u201c<\/span>Certain songs, like ‘Jenny Ondioline’, are pure Neu!, and we never denied it,\u201d Sadier would tell The Wire<\/i> a few years later. Krautrock, with its propulsive mystery, was a major influence on The Groop, especially in the early days. \u201c<\/span>It’s music that you don’t really know where it came from,\u201d Gane said of Faust. \u201c<\/span>They had some supremely melodic music, still with musique concr\u00e8te<\/i> added onto it, but an unusual interpretation of melodic music.\u201d<\/p>\n