Word: stereolab
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Aside from that sacrilegious entreaty, there were no other interuptions from the attentive audience. Curiously, Stereolab are not exactly the superhuman figures the crowd makes them out to be. Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, the principals of Stereolab, are, in fact, decidedly normal. Indeed, there's something supremely understated about the group, something peculiarly subtle about them that not only begs for an answer, but apparently has the power to make even crowds docile...
With such stoicism, one may easily mistake Stereolab for an opening band. Their static stage manners coupled with the relatively sober crowd give no hint to their brilliance. Upon closer inspection, the crowd was awaiting the evening's top bill not with indifference, but bona fide reverence--creening to absorb the group's trademark sound of hypnotic rhythmic tracks overlaid with melodic, mesmerizing vocals...
...Stereolab's charisma did not lay claim to the reverence garnered from their fans, the power must have partially come from the sounds emanating from the group's cache of analog relics and digital gadgets barricading their stage. Undoubtedly, more than just francophiles delight in Sadier's irresistible French lyrics and Marxist banter. Backed in part by Australian-born Mary Hansen, Sadier's voice wafted ethereally between the electronic imagery...
...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...