Black vinyl in bespoke gatefold sleeve inside a clear heavyweight PVC wallet
· Bonus disk of unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate mixes
· 24” fold-out poster insert with lyrics and sleevenotes from Laetitia Sadier
and Tim Gane
The music that Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane made on Sound-Dust continued to
further Stereolab’s case as an avant-pop group par excellence. This album
finds them working across a typically broad array of styles, with bossa nova,
krautrock and 60s style chansons all touched upon here. Certain tracks find more
joy in the cerebral library pop sound that they had been perfecting for more
than a decade by the time this record was released – the midsection run
between Baby Lulu and Double Rocker features some particularly fine songs in
this vein.
Having worked with Sonic Youth’s Jim O’Rourke and Tortoise’s John
McEntire on 1999’s Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night,
Stereolab decided to get the pair involved again two years later to produce
Sound-Dust.