- Audio CD (27 Sep 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Duophonic
- ASIN: B000025AM2
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 99,709 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Some say that Stereolab always sound the same - they are very wrong. The early albums are far more primitive. The same spirit may inform throughout, but they've grown ever more refined in their dark arts.
This album is fantastic - superbly subtle rhythmically, deeply layered, with obscure poetical-philosophy in the lyrics. Trance inducing cosmic riffs (free design and milky night - yes please!) - krautrock meets bossa - both artful and naieve, joyous and darkly brooding.
If you like music that dares to tread it's own path, yet conjures up a whole world of influences and flavours, and still retains a distinctive taste all of it's own, then come play in the milky night.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Once again we are offered a new Stereolab album; once again, it revels in it's curious mixture of the sublimely alternative and the cheesily cheerful. You think you are listening to Burt Barcarach one moment, and some kind of bubbling, gurgling Music-from-Mars the next. What they've added for this particular outing is the trumpet part, which would make this the Groop's "calypso" album. The music is richly baroque, and deeply layered, and my only criticism of it would be the riffing which each song has a tendency to lurch into. That said, if you're looking for a sparky album brimming with ideas, and you don't mind a bit of Avant-Garde moog with your pop, give this one a spin.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a long album but it's long and interesting. Stereolab really do take you along a remarkable path using original instrumentation and lush, delicious vocals. They use incredibly varied melodies and rhythms too. If you have a short attention span you may feel like parts of this album are too quiet and slow. This is to miss the point. The loveliness of the livelier parts of the album is boosted by the softer and gentler sequences. The album is by turns jolly, quirky, atmospheric and forthright. The whole band seem to have simply transferred their creativity into the music without any intervening media. You may not like all of this album all at once but, over time, the immediately excellent bits (of which there are many) will keep you coming back. Soon the whole album will make more and more sense. You'll be feel more a human being having heard this record. This is not chewing gum pop. This is musicianship expressing itself with joy and confidence.
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