Stereolab

Stereolab

Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, October 1991

Stereolab are onstage. There are seven of them tonight; five male (two guitars, bass, drums and keyboard) and two female (singing). They are supporting, so ...

Stereolab: Peng! (Too Pure)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, May 1992

STEREOLAB, to me, were always one of those anonymous State Of The Art bands which so needlessly cluttered up the pages of the music press, ...

Stereolab: Separation Terrorists

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, July 1994

Subversive MOR may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it’s the best available description of Stereolab’s new single, ‘Ping Pong’, the most brilliant example ...

Stereolab: Simple Minds

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Rolling Stone, April 1996

"Repetition in the music and we're never gonna lose it," sang Mark E. Smith of the English post-punk legends the Fall in the aptly titled ...

The High Llamas: Hawaii; Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, May 1996

UPON OBSERVING A SMALL dog walking on its hind legs, Doctor Johnson famously noted that it was less remarkable how well the cur in question ...

Stereolab: Dots And Loops (Duophonic)

Review by Stephen Dalton, NME, September 1997

STEREOLAB ARE running dogs of bourgeois revisionism who, come the revolution, will be hunted down and shot like the lowly vermin they are. ...

Stereolab: Dots and Loops

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rolling Stone, 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. ...

Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage In the Milky Night (Duophonic)

Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, September 1999

Double-vinyl-length opus from the enduring and indefatigable South-east Londoners, half of it co-produced by Tortoise’s John McEntire, half by ex-Gastr del Sol member Jim O’Rourke. ...

The Grim Reporter January 2003

Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, January 2003

Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...