Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
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Artist: StereolabEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-04-09
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Metronomic Underground
- Cybele's Reverie
- Percolator
- Yper-Sound
- Spark Plug
- Olv 26
- Noise of Carpet
- Tomorrow Is Already Here
- Emperor Tomato Ketchup
- Monstre Sacre
- Motoroller Scalatron
- Slow Fast Hazel
- Anonymous Collective
Music reviews of Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Music Review: observations
Rating: 5 Stars
First, this is a fantastic album. I always find something new every time I listen to it...and I've listened to it a lot.
But what's interesting about this album is that it's really a demarcation from one phase of Stereolab to another and there is a specific song where that it seems like they threw the switch and never looked back. It's breathtaking, in fact.
Previous to ETK, Stereolab was a fine band, however, it seemed like they would forever be stuck repeating itself. The albums before ETK seemed to be a collection of simple droning tunes which seemed a little overly retro. That's not to say that those albums are bad, but that trick was starting to play itself by the end of the fantastic Mars Audiac Quintet. Then came Emperor Tomato Ketchup. First song, Metronomic Underground. I've never been a huge fan of this song. Again, another repetitive song and it just doesn't seem to go anywhere...but it sets a tone for what is to come: less retro 60s, more branching out to new sounds. Next song, Cybele's Reverie. Gorgeous strings. One of my favorite songs ever.
But then, Percolator. THIS is the song where Stereolab broke its bounds. This is where they stepped out of 4/4 time and into something else. It's where they used the tools they had to create something truly new and unique. I'm glad they did it.
For those of you who didn't witness it first hand, it would be interesting to listen to Stereolab's albums in order. The change from before Percolator to after Percolator is remarkable.
Description of Emperor Tomato Ketchup
You want retro? Get a load of their equipment, from the vintage Farfisa and Vox organs to the ever-lovable Moog synthesizers. You want futurist? It's the sound of not-so-well-oiled machinery, churning and sputtering into space age bachelor pad heaven and postindustrial hell. You want pure pop? Dig how they mine mod sounds of the '60s, from Burt Bacharach to Fran?oise Hardy, and pull melodies straight out of a bubblegum wrapper. You want avant garde? Check the blatant liftings from '70s krautrockers Neu! and Can, plus their appropriations of Philip Glass's disjointed wordplay and Ornette Coleman's jagged alto sax.You want meaning? These are songs loaded with optimism, progressivism, humanism, and dashes of Marxism. You want nonsense? There's plenty of "la-la-la's" to lead us into oblivion, and head vocalist Laetitia Sadier sings half the time in French.
You want a groove band? Tracks like "Metronomic Underground" and "Les Yper-Sound" cast a funk trance heavier than voodoo and at least as danceable as any neo-hippie tripe. You want a band that rocks? Try "The Noise of Carpet" for its rug-burning guitar and acceleration drum whacks. Yesterday, tomorrow, now: Stereolab's the one. --Roni Sarig
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