Stereolab "The Underground is Coming" 7" Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks (UK)

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Stereolab were an band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team (/) and (/keyboards/guitar), both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes. Other long-time members include () and (/keyboards/guitar). Ramsay joined the group in 1993, while Hansen joined ten years before her accidental death in 2002.

Called "one of the most fiercely independent and original groups of the Nineties", Stereolab were one of the first bands to be termed "". Their primary musical influence was 1970s , which they combined with , 1960s , and experimental pop music. They were noted for their heavy use of vintage electronic keyboards, and their sound often overlays a repetitive "" beat with female vocals sung in English or French. Stereolab often incorporated socio-political themes into their lyrics. Some critics say the group's lyrics carry a strong message, and Gane and Sadier admit to being influenced by the and cultural and political movements. However, Gane is skeptical of labels such as "Marxist pop", and defends the band against accusations of "sloganeering".

Although many of the band's albums have been underground hits, they never found larger commercial success. The band were released from their recording contract with when Warner's imprint folded. The release was reportedly due to poor record sales, and since then Stereolab's self-owned label, , has signed a distribution deal with . Duophonic holds the copyrights to the band's recordings, and on the label the band have released many limited-edition records.

On 2 April 2009 Stereolab manager Martin Pike posted a message on the band's website, announcing that after 19 years the band would go into hiatus as "there are no plans to record new tracks".

2003–present

The 2003 EP was recorded in France, and was Stereolab's first release following Hansen's death. According to the music journalist Jim DeRogatis, the EP marked a return to their earlier, harder sound—"free from the pseudo-funk moves and avant-garde tinkering that had been inspired by Chicago producer Jim O'Rourke". That year, Sadier's side-project, , released their debut album Socialisme Ou Barbarie: The Bedroom Recordings. Both the name of the group and the title of the album were references to the work of Greek-French intellectual .

The full-length album followed in 2004 to generally positive reviews, and peaked at #174 on the US Billboard 200. The track "Feel and Triple" was written in tribute to Hansen; according to Sadier "I was reflecting on my years with her...reflecting on how we sometimes found it hard to express the love we had for one another."s Molloy Woodcraft awarded the album four out of five stars, and described Sadier's vocal performance as "life- and love-affirming", and the record as a whole as "Complex and catchy, bold and beatific." However, Kelefa Sanneh argued in Rolling Stone that Margerine Eclipse was "full of familiar noises and aimless melodies".Margerine Eclipse was Stereolab's last record on their American label Elektra Records, which closed down in 2004. Future material would be released on Too Pure, the same company which released some of the band's earliest material.

The album was followed by ; a 2005 three-CD and one-DVD retrospective of the group's rarer material. Monade's second album, A Few Steps More, also appeared that year. In 2005 and 2006, Stereolab released six limited-edition singles which were collected in , and contained material which Mark Jenkins thought continued the brisker sound of the band's post-Hansen work., a "best-of" compilation focusing on the band's Elektra years, was released in late 2006. By June 2007, Stereolab's lineup comprised Tim Gane, Lætitia Sadier, Andy Ramsay, Simon Johns, Dominic Jeffrey, Joseph Watson, and Joseph Walters. The band had finished the production of their next album, entitled , which was released in August 2008 on the 4AD label. The release of the album was followed by an autumn tour of Europe and the United States. They toured Australia in February 2009 as part of the

On April 2, 2009 the band announced the end of their career together for the time being. After working together for 19 years, the band stated they felt it was time to take a rest and move on to new projects.

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