Word: stereolabã
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...great, but the elaborate release strategy for “Fab Four,” the group’s fourteenth full-length album, hints at something else: this music can’t quite sell itself. Battling everything from bad reviews to bizarre bicycling accidents, Stereolab??s had it pretty tough the last couple of years. There have been personnel shifts, distracting side projects, and, most damaging, the death of vocalist Mary Hansen. This hectic beginning to the millennium seems to have left Stereolab a bit dazed, a shell of its former self. Try as they might...
...Like Stereolab??s recent Margerine Eclipse, We Shall All Be Healed is an example of a great band refusing to go any farther than their long-stayed course. There’s nothing particularly bad on the album, so for one unacquainted with the Goats, it represents them well. But considering their prolific and prodigious output, this release of rehashed songs and half-developed concepts seems nothing more than a sad tear-jerking waste...
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