PRE-ORDER: EXPECTED TO SHIP 28 FEBRUARY
This 1999 long-player from Stereolab featuring a cast of thousands (or thereabouts), you'll notice Jim O'Rourke, The High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan, Tortoise drummer/producer John McEntire and Rob Mazurek of Chicago Underground fame. With all these fine musicians, 'Cobra and Phases Group...' is surely Stereolab's most sonically lavish long-player, putting every conceivable instrument (particularly ones that were popular in the 1970s, such as the clavinet and electric harpsichord) to good use. The sophisticated dalliances with progged-up, fusionist lounge-jazz are likely to send many running to the hills, but there's real magic at work in certain corners of this album. Just listen to the David Axelrod-like strings and baroque keys of 'The Emergency Kisses'.
Track Listing:
1. Fuses - Stereolab (3.41)
2. People Do It All the Time - Stereolab (3.42)
3. The Free Design - Stereolab (3.48)
4. Blips Drips and Strips - Stereolab (4.29)
5. Italian Shoes Continuum - Stereolab (4.36)
6. Infinity Girl - Stereolab (3.56)
7. The Spiracles - Stereolab (3.41)
8. Op Hop Detonation - Stereolab (3.33)
9. Puncture in the Radar Permutation - Stereolab (5.5)
10. Velvet Water - Stereolab (4.23)
11. Blue Milk - Stereolab (11.3)
12. Caleidoscopic Gaze - Stereolab (8.09)
13. Strobo Acceleration - Stereolab (3.56)
14. The Emergency Kisses - Stereolab (5.54)
15. Come and Play in the Milky Night - Stereolab (4.39)
Year of Production:
1999