Stereolab | 1993 | Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

Krautrock | Art Pop | Post-Rock

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Laetitia Sadier (vocals, organ, others), Mary Hansen (vocals, tambourine, guitar), Tim Gane (guitar, organ, others), Sean O'Hagan (organ, Farfisa, guitar), Duncan Brown (bass, guitar, vocals) and Andy Ramsay (percussion, organ, bouzouki)

Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements is an album that combines an almost decidedly pop sensitivity with the hypnotic volatility of krautrock. Without hesitation, Stereolab wanders from simple indie melodies such as "I'm Going Out Of My Way" –which, by the way, don't leave the german influences aside– to epic motorik deliria such as "Golden Ball" or "Jenny Ondioline". In sum, all this multiform variety of mellow but deep melodies constitute a powerful album, beautiful and delicately lysergic, in which Lætitia Sadier's sweet voice builds a trance fed by perfect synthesizers, space drums and an evident (but subtle) experimental vocation. In other words, they form an album that gives new life to krautrock without selling it to a commercial sound, but nourishing it with a dreamy, harmonious sensitivity. —IMF