Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stereolab graced the karmic stage playing to a capacity crowd. Whereas Damon Albarn and company may get jeers from Gallagher acolytes between sets, and Jarvis Cocker has lingerie (new and apparently used) thrown at him mid-verse, only the progenitors of what has been called "silver-suited amorphous future-pop" would receive such a foolhardy request to enter their privileged world of audio experimentation...
Stereolab's music is often dismissed as catchy, camp and shallow. But their inclination for melodic 60s pop melded with decisively art-rock aesthetic, not to mention their most recent foray in appropriating a selection of jazz styles, have garnered them a strong cult following both here and across the Atlantic. Moreover, with these guys darlings of the pop music industry, it's not uncommon for more mainstream bands to drop the names of Gane and Sadier as what they're listening...
Though their pop minimalism is easily misunderstood, it is through this very style of experimenting that Stereolab continues to legitimize music traditionally bastardized in the rock lineage. It's not difficult to find the distinctive strains of bossa-nova, lounge-pop and movie soundtracks underneath the pulsating rhythms and enchanting vocals...
Friday night, the group reveled in its introspection; their performance was both accessible and challenging. Stereolab are modern troubadours who transform familiar melodies into a lush landscape of experimentation. Like many of its English counterparts, Stereolab provides a welcome injection of pop sensibility to the often uninspired noisy sea of mainstream American music...
...especially proud of the new Nick Salaman covers she's doing, which she calls "poppy and beautiful." Salaman, former leader of Bevis Frond, has collaborated with Lord in the past, but the Got No Shadow material is most characteristic of his individual music, with less guitar and "more pop virtuoso...