Stopgap to a kaleidoscopic career
Could this be the last we ever hear from Stereolab? With the veteran experimentalists on a self-imposed hiatus - and now a drummer light - ‘Not Music’ offers a stopgap if not a final full stop to a kaleidoscopic career.
Recorded alongside previous album ‘Chemical Chords’, the latest record bears the band’s hallmarks, from the skipping AHD of ‘Everybody’s Weird Except Me’ to the chamber-funk of ‘Two Finger Symphony’. So is this goodbye? Let’s hope not: at the risk of sounding partisan and overly dramatic; a world without Stereolab would be like a school without a playground.
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words by Neil Condron
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Recorded alongside previous album ‘Chemical Chords’, the latest record bears the band’s hallmarks, from the skipping AHD of ‘Everybody’s Weird Except Me’ to the chamber-funk of ‘Two Finger Symphony’. So is this goodbye? Let’s hope not: at the risk of sounding partisan and overly dramatic; a world without Stereolab would be like a school without a playground.
8/10
words by Neil Condron
Amazon.co.uk Widgets
