Stereolab - The Groop Played "Space Age Batchelor Pad Music"
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Artist: StereolabEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-03-10
Music Label: Too Pure / Beggars Banquet
Soundtracks:
- Avant Garde M.O.R.
- Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Mellow)
- The Groop Play Chord X
- Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Foamy)
- Ronco Symphony
- We're Not Adult Oriented
- U.H.F.-MFP
- We're Not Adult Oriented (Neu Wave Live)
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Music Review: if you are fanatical about Stereolab, get it. If not, consider not.
Rating: 2 Stars
Perhaps the slightest release in Stereolab's impressive discography, "The Groop..." is more of an extended-play single than an album proper, although it clocks at 28 minutes, a good portion of that feels half-formed. Both versions of the title track included seem more like unfinished ideas than songs: the "mellow" version's nasal chords plod insistently through a repetitive chord progression that is probably the closest the band has ever come to annoying, and the "foamy" version burbles and bubbles along forgettably and formlessly.
Those two disappointing tracks aside, there are several sublime moments that find the group (sorry, I refuse to say "groop") in a gentle musical mode that belies fiercely political lyrics. "Avant Garde M.O.R.," the album opener, is one of those -- a sedately paced slice of 60s-inspired pop with lovely harmonies and staunchly anti-war lyrics. While there are few of the syncopated tempo switch-ups that Stereolab would become adept at further along in their recording career, songs like this manage to be contemplative at the same time that they pack a potent sense of musical lift. "The Groop Played Chord X" is similarly lovely, though brief and feeling a little underdeveloped with it's wordless vocal harmonies.
Things finally get a jolt of energy with side two's "We're Not Adult Orientated," a droning clatter that is reprised in an even more energized live version at the end of the disc. All in all, "The Groop..." is a little of a letdown considering the exciting and varied music the group released on either side of it. This could stem from the sequencing, packing all the mellower songs toward the beginning, or it could stem from the unrealized potential of about half of the songs. "Peng," the first Switched On collection, "Transient Random Noisebursts" and "Mars Audiac Quintet" all had quite a bit more going for them than this stopgap album-ette, and it certainly suffers by comparison to any of those.
While it may be their least essential, it is something completists will want, or listeners that want to hear some of their experiments in a somewhat raw and unpolished/unfinished form.
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