Stereolab
Chemical Chords

I’ve always found Stereolab to be terrifically frustrating. Take the first track “Neon Beanbag” on Chemical Chords, for example. The song would’ve bee...

It’s not an easy trick that Stereolab turn, time and again: making records that’re distinct without ever truly diverting from their singular...

Part of the fun of following Stereolab over the years has been following the declarations of mastermind Tim Gane, who has an uncanny ability to plant ...

The most striking element of Chemical Chords is its brevity. It's been ages since Stereolab made an album without a dragged-out, drone-y centerpiece o...

Seventeen years and a dozen-plus albums into their career, Stereolab have their formula down: Tim Gane assembles boppy little grooves out of the raw m...

It's strange to remember how fresh a breath of air the post-rock of bands like Tortoise and, in the UK, Stereolab seemed in the early 1990s. Alternati...

I won’t pretend to have grown up with Stereolab (I was six when they released their debut), but since I discovered them in high school, they have evok...

In the six years since singer Mary Hansen's death, Stereolab has mildly oscillated from the up grooviness of 2004's "Margerine Eclipse" toward dulcet ...

To continually reprimand Stereolab for being formulaic and repetitious is perhaps missing the point of the creative relationship between co-founding s...

Has it really been 17 years and 11 albums for Stereolab I can still remember the thrill of seeing/hearing their second single, ?Super-Electric,? than...