Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse [2CD Expanded] (New CD)

Stereolab”s first full-length recording without guitarist/vocalist Mary Hansen, who died in a tragic accident in December of 2002, Margerine Eclipse finds the band soldiering on in admirable fashion. Essentially picking up where they left off on 2001”s Sound-Dust, the group continues to employ their trademark blend of vintage keyboards, airy French/English vocals, and frothy lounge-meets-electronica pop sensibilities. That”s not to say that there absolutely no new developments; one can hear the occasional dash of hip-hop rhythm (“”La Demeure””), Autechre-like laptop glitch-pop (“”Vonal Declosion””), and even a bit of disco (at the end of album-closer “”Dear Marge””) amid the familiarly odd time signatures, quirky socio-political lyrical observations, and postmodern retro-futurism.

• – Disc 1 –
• 1 Vonal Declosion
• 2 Need to Be
• 3 Sudden Stars
• 4 Cosmic Country Noir
• 5 La Demeure
• 6 Margerine Rock
• 7 The Man with 100 Cells
• 8 Margerine Melodie
• 9 Hillbilly Motorbike
• 10 Feel and Triple
• 11 Bop Scotch
• 12 Dear Marge

• – Disc 2 –
• 1 Mass Riff
• 2 Good Is Me
• 3 Microclimate
• 4 Mass Riff Instrumental
• 5 Jaunty Monty and the Bubbles of Silence
• 6 Banana Monster Ne Répond Plus
• 7 University Microfilms International
• 8 Rose, My Rocket-Brain! (Rose, Le Cerveau Electronique de Ma Fusée!)