{"id":1835,"date":"2011-03-18T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2011-03-18T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:13:11","slug":"stereolab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/stereolab\/","title":{"rendered":"STEREOLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STEREOLAB-M-Review-December2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1836\" title=\"STEREOLAB-M-Review-December2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STEREOLAB-M-Review-December2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STEREOLAB-M-Review-December2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STEREOLAB-M-Review-December2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>S<\/strong><strong>TEREOLAB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Not Music<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Drag City]<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this new release does not signal an end to Stereolab\u2019s recently begun hiatus. The 13 songs on <em>Not Music<\/em> were recorded in 2007 alongside the 17 that made it onto the following year\u2019s <em>Chemical Chords<\/em>. This new batch shares much in common with the first, while building on ideas the London collective has been cooking up since the early \u201990s. As always, Stereolab makes music for situationist cocktail parties\u2014soirees where everyone talks art and politics and speaks with the unintelligible coo of singer Laetitia Sadier. Tunes like \u201cSo Is\u00a0 Cardboard Clouds\u201d and \u201cEverybody\u2019s Weird Except Me\u201d remain airy and accessible even as krautrock, free jazz, psychedelic rock and kitschy-cool bachelor-pad sounds mix like ingredients in a tiki cocktail. The 10-minute \u201cSilver Sands\u201d evolves from tense, Kraftwerk-style car-chase music to something resembling a slowed-down version of Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Stop \u2019til You Get Enough.\u201d Stereolab can\u2019t disband\u2014who else would try such things? \u2013KP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEREOLAB Not Music [Drag City] Sadly, this new release does not signal an end to Stereolab\u2019s recently begun hiatus. The 13 songs on Not Music were recorded in 2007 alongside the 17 that made it onto the following year\u2019s Chemical Chords. This new batch shares much in common with the first, while building on ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1377,1334,288,1378,1376,1375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}