ah, what will happen to stereolab? does radio silence for six months mean tim has started a new career in the prodigious field of cranberry-picking and laetitia is on a quest for her ruthless, earthly femininity (not to mention making boring music as monade)?
i shouldn’t hope so. they should get off their collective hipster asses sometime soon and start releasing music, or at least give the world an idea of when their fabled new album is going to see the light of day.
this blogger counts on you and your gallic synth sensibility, oh tim and laetitia, and no, monade will not do as a replacement, sorry.
it’s very nice and well if ms sadier wants to express her own musical sensibilities every now and then, but i hope she’ll understand her place is ultimately at the stereolab microphone, singing about world socialism sleepily and shaking a tambourine with moderate success. i’m a stereolab fan, and a very disgruntled one.
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cyberpainter // 13 April 2008 at 6:18
Stereolab’s new album is finished and mastered, according to pikey, and on the gs. Tentative release date will be late August/early September. Plans are underway for US tour dates, and so far we know of these festival dates this summer: Synch Festival, Athens, June 15, and Slottsfjell Festival, Tonsberg, Norway, July 19.
So dry your eyes young sizzler, and know that we’ll be regaled and soothed before the year is out. ;)
SM // 17 April 2008 at 19:33
I think the new Monade is ok. My review for it is on my own blog along with some more new music I’ve reviewed lately for a newspaper (i include all the English translations of my published work on the blog).
Speaking of Stereolab, I had a dream that their new record was actually out and critics actually gave it rave reviews! And it was apparently praised for its blend of rock energy, brave experimentalism and tight writing! Just the Stereolab album I want! Somehow I suspect this will be a lot mellower deal in reality.
By the way, I read it from the Myspace that some news will emerge on Pitchfork. I think it’s strange, but maybe Stereolab views this site as a) a necessary evil or b) not so seriously as the offended diehard fans who get pissed over a mildly dismissive Dom Leone review. Leone is actually a good writer, but Pitchfork does not showcase him at his best. Read his work at Progreviews.com or even AMG to read him without the hipster filler. I’m tempted to think he’s told to churn out all this hipster jargon in order to get published in Pitchfork, just like supervisors tell BA paper writers to change their wordings in order to sound more “academic”. This would not surprise me at all. But in any case, I don’t really subscribe to the idea that there’s some dumb collective conspiracy on behalf of critics to demonize Stereolab and ruin their reputation or something.
SM // 18 April 2008 at 17:42
It’s confirmed! Chemical Chords, the new album will be released in August 18.
cyberpainter // 26 April 2008 at 10:25
There’s no dumb collective conspiracy, who says that? Just dumb reviews. But the interview with Tim was very interesting.
One song will be available Monday on itunes.
SM // 26 April 2008 at 11:16
You’re right. Nobody explicitly says there’s conspiracy. But somehow, don’t all those dismissive reviews make a diehard fan think that those critics have an agenda? I could understand that. In reality, too many critics are just bad writers. Especially Pitchforkers. They’re either incompetent or foolishly think it’s clever to write a bunch of aimless jargon. That Paul Thompson who contributed the most recent Stereolab news as well as the interview, he seems like a decent guy though. I hope he does the review for the new album. He seems like a new guy there too.