Stereolab - Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night

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Music Review: Stereolab Fall Under the Weight of Jazz...***1/2
Rating: 4 Stars

the album begins with the odd instrumental cacophony of "fuses" which will send most old fans screaming for the stop button. But if you hang on for "The Free Design", all will be rewarded. Here the rhythms really kick in and the textures dance all over each other. Prance around for a few more songs and you get " QP Hop detonation", "Puncture in the Radax Permutation" and "Velvet Water" all of which belong in the classic Stereolab song mix (especially "Puncture" which features more of their patented song shifts). After that, though, it gets weird again. "Blue Milk" is a 14 minute sound wash that doesn't always work and "Caleidoscopic Gaze" just doesn't work, period. "Come and Play in the Milky Night" ends the album on an upnote, but overall the record leaves me with more questions than answers. For one: where are Gane and Sadier going with all this? At the end of "Dots and Loops" one is left with a promise of a groovy symbiot between jazz, pop, and experimental music. At the end of this one we are left with no promises at all. As if the jazz had finally won the battle begun way back when on "The Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" and nothing new had arisen to challenge it. Another problem is Sadier herself...i dearly love her lyrics and vocal stylings, but they haven't changed while the music has. What this means is that her voice no longer matches the tunes that surround it. These songs call for some long, drawn out wails and passionate subject matter and neither of these are Laetita's fortay.

But no matter. It's still a great little album full of surprises. And many of my gripes may come from years of being continually astonished by this band's creativity, only to wonder if they've hit the end of their road. If so, they've left behind a legacy difficult to compete with, which will only ripen with the years. If not, I imagine i will be bowled over in a year or two with the new wonders concocted by Gane's musical kitchen. Even still, he can make some mean salsa.

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