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Stereolab: Dots and Loops

Barney Hoskyns, Rolling Stone, 2 October 1997

PITY THE cerebral technicians of Stereolab, whose coolly subversive fusion of muzak and krautrock has for too long condemned them to the Critics’ Darling ghetto. Perfect postmodern pop group they may be, but I’ll wager they’d trade a smidgeon of their street-cred for a moment in the bigger spotlight.

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