Sizzling 2022 remaster of Stereolab's fab third EP "Low Fi", that's notable for featuring the first appearance of Mary Hansen. Easily the most essential release of their early catalogue, it's never sounded better.
Before 1993's "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" drizzled exotica elements into their sound, Stereolab had more in common with '70s krautrock zoners like Neu! and Can, setting dissonant guitar drones against pulsing, motorik rhythms. 1992's "Low Fi" is the best example of this era, and showcased many of the band's core characteristics in the hazy tangle of bubbling analog synths and quirky vocals. It was the first time we got to hear the late Mary Hansen, whose back-and-forth vocal interplay with Laetitia Sadier would be one of Stereolab's most defining features.
Remastered at last, it sounds bright and animated without losing its grotty punch. The album's deceptively sweet opener 'Low Fi' is probably the most recognizable song from the EP, but it's the electrically zapped moments that make it for us, like the extended jam '(Varoom!)' that ends with almost five minutes of deranged, blown-out fuzzbox mulch and muted drum machine whirr. So good!
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Sizzling 2022 remaster of Stereolab's fab third EP "Low Fi", that's notable for featuring the first appearance of Mary Hansen. Easily the most essential release of their early catalogue, it's never sounded better.
Before 1993's "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" drizzled exotica elements into their sound, Stereolab had more in common with '70s krautrock zoners like Neu! and Can, setting dissonant guitar drones against pulsing, motorik rhythms. 1992's "Low Fi" is the best example of this era, and showcased many of the band's core characteristics in the hazy tangle of bubbling analog synths and quirky vocals. It was the first time we got to hear the late Mary Hansen, whose back-and-forth vocal interplay with Laetitia Sadier would be one of Stereolab's most defining features.
Remastered at last, it sounds bright and animated without losing its grotty punch. The album's deceptively sweet opener 'Low Fi' is probably the most recognizable song from the EP, but it's the electrically zapped moments that make it for us, like the extended jam '(Varoom!)' that ends with almost five minutes of deranged, blown-out fuzzbox mulch and muted drum machine whirr. So good!
Sizzling 2022 remaster of Stereolab's fab third EP "Low Fi", that's notable for featuring the first appearance of Mary Hansen. Easily the most essential release of their early catalogue, it's never sounded better.
Before 1993's "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" drizzled exotica elements into their sound, Stereolab had more in common with '70s krautrock zoners like Neu! and Can, setting dissonant guitar drones against pulsing, motorik rhythms. 1992's "Low Fi" is the best example of this era, and showcased many of the band's core characteristics in the hazy tangle of bubbling analog synths and quirky vocals. It was the first time we got to hear the late Mary Hansen, whose back-and-forth vocal interplay with Laetitia Sadier would be one of Stereolab's most defining features.
Remastered at last, it sounds bright and animated without losing its grotty punch. The album's deceptively sweet opener 'Low Fi' is probably the most recognizable song from the EP, but it's the electrically zapped moments that make it for us, like the extended jam '(Varoom!)' that ends with almost five minutes of deranged, blown-out fuzzbox mulch and muted drum machine whirr. So good!
Sizzling 2022 remaster of Stereolab's fab third EP "Low Fi", that's notable for featuring the first appearance of Mary Hansen. Easily the most essential release of their early catalogue, it's never sounded better.
Before 1993's "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" drizzled exotica elements into their sound, Stereolab had more in common with '70s krautrock zoners like Neu! and Can, setting dissonant guitar drones against pulsing, motorik rhythms. 1992's "Low Fi" is the best example of this era, and showcased many of the band's core characteristics in the hazy tangle of bubbling analog synths and quirky vocals. It was the first time we got to hear the late Mary Hansen, whose back-and-forth vocal interplay with Laetitia Sadier would be one of Stereolab's most defining features.
Remastered at last, it sounds bright and animated without losing its grotty punch. The album's deceptively sweet opener 'Low Fi' is probably the most recognizable song from the EP, but it's the electrically zapped moments that make it for us, like the extended jam '(Varoom!)' that ends with almost five minutes of deranged, blown-out fuzzbox mulch and muted drum machine whirr. So good!