Stereolab
ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions
| | This great idea, stuffing Stereolab's BBC recordings on two CDs, now doubles as an epitaph for singer-guitarist Mary Hansen, who died in December. It is a fitting tribute and a fine survey of the band's pneumatic bubblegum: sweet pop stripped to its fundamental throb and melancholy. DAVID FRICKE
(RS 915 – February 6, 2003)
There is so much good material on this collection of radio sessions from 1991 to 2001 that it s almost easier not to listen to it at all. >From the driving, Neu!-esque indie pop to the tropicalia-postmodern overload 10 years later, these songs are bursting with new energy even right now!
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