Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet (Expanded)3 May 2019 sees the start of Stereolab's 7 album reissue campaign when 1993's 'Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements' and 1994's 'Mars Audiac Quintet' will be the first albums reissued, via Warp Records and Duophonic UHF Disks, as expanded and re mastered editions on vinyl, compact disk and digital. Each album has been re mastered from the original 1 2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane. Bonus material will

Guitars and synths vie for melodic prominence over vast swathes of fuzz and feedback

Craig Leon's seminal synthesizer albums 'Nommos' and 'Visiting' are finally re-editioned in definitive form as the 'Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol

soon the prodigy gained six-string proficiency

140g vinyl

A far cry from the larval keenings of ‰Û÷Luminous Dolphin‰۪ and ‰Û÷Cut You Loose‰۪ ‰ÛÓ but in that

it's a singularly thrilling performance from start to finish with west's howling vocals and slobbering harmonica work and jones's string-mangling guitar leads ricocheting like pinballs across the tough

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were as inscrutable as Cocker was lucidly literate

which turns every riff and rhythm into points on a map and takes the scenic route from one to the next

Robert Ashley or even Lynn Goldsmith’s Will Powers

resonant piano chords and plaintive tinkling

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