Stereolab-Margerine Eclipse?
Hi there, Yesterday I saw in someone's n.p the latest Stereolab album. Any opinions on it will be appreciated. How does the group sound with Mary Hansen's absence? Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: 50th Birthday Celebration Vol. I: Masada String Trio ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es
Hello Efren and everyone else. I think it's their strongest album in a while (in my case, since 'dots and loops'). Certainly better than 'sound dust'. However, it still retains a cut and paste feel - for example, the last track basically ends in the middle, and then a jam fades in to end the track (apparently the jam also appears on the EP the released prior to the album(?)). One difference is that they seem to do a better job of it this time around. Also, even though the songs have a variety of different parts in relatively short time, there are more memorable grooves present. Clearly they are never going to return to the relatively 'minimalistic' guitar-driven drones of their earlier albums - this album is chock full of blips and bleeps and what have you - but the album seems to have more space than 'sound dust' despite the auxilliary clutter. They make significant use of complete stereo seperation - like the Beatles, with the drums in one channel completely, and the vocals in the other. (The liner notes say the album was recorded in "dual-mono".) Mary Hansen is missed, but the other vocalist whose name I forget multitracks accompaniment. The loss will be striking during live performances - i'm not sure how they are going to pull it off. In general, i've been giving this disc a lot of time in my cd player. Hope this helps, whit np - diamonds are forever (soundtrack) On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Efrén del Valle wrote:
Hi there,
Yesterday I saw in someone's n.p the latest Stereolab album. Any opinions on it will be appreciated. How does the group sound with Mary Hansen's absence?
Best,
Efrén del Valle n.p: 50th Birthday Celebration Vol. I: Masada String Trio
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Hi, Thanks a lot, William. I liked "Sound-Dust" quite a bit. I found it to be a slightly different approach to their sound, darker if you will. The other vocalist is Laetitia Sadier. Last time they played here in BCN, the show was a complete disaster. It was not their fault, but the mixing desk guys' making one mistake after another. Hansen spent the whole concert trying to have the guys turn her mike on! I'm also wondering what they'll do with those cheesy-choruses on a live setting. Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: Gary Lucas "Street of Lost Brothers" (Tzadik) --- "William W. Schonbein" <wwschonb@artsci.wustl.edu> escribió: >
Hello Efren and everyone else.
I think it's their strongest album in a while (in my case, since 'dots and loops'). Certainly better than 'sound dust'. However, it still retains a cut and paste feel - for example, the last track basically ends in the middle, and then a jam fades in to end the track (apparently the jam also appears on the EP the released prior to the album(?)). One difference is that they seem to do a better job of it this time around.
Also, even though the songs have a variety of different parts in relatively short time, there are more memorable grooves present. Clearly they are never going to return to the relatively 'minimalistic' guitar-driven drones of their earlier albums - this album is chock full of blips and bleeps and what have you - but the album seems to have more space than 'sound dust' despite the auxilliary clutter. They make significant use of complete stereo seperation - like the Beatles, with the drums in one channel completely, and the vocals in the other. (The liner notes say the album was recorded in "dual-mono".)
Mary Hansen is missed, but the other vocalist whose name I forget multitracks accompaniment. The loss will be striking during live performances - i'm not sure how they are going to pull it off.
In general, i've been giving this disc a lot of time in my cd player.
Hope this helps, whit np - diamonds are forever (soundtrack)
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Efrén del Valle wrote:
Hi there,
Yesterday I saw in someone's n.p the latest Stereolab album. Any opinions on it will be appreciated. How does the group sound with Mary Hansen's absence?
Best,
Efrén del Valle n.p: 50th Birthday Celebration Vol. I: Masada String Trio
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