The Groop’s first album in 15 years sounds like the Platonic ideal of a Stereolab album: cerebral, slippery, playful, and defiant. The band’s characteristic mid-song switch-ups also appear ...

And yet, here we are with Instant Holograms On Metal Film, an album that finds their unique chemistry not only intact but shining bright. “I see everything as a continuum with no determined ...

After a fifteen-year break, Stereolab are back. Instant Holograms on Metal Film fits so seamlessly into their near-faultless canon that you can’t help but wonder why critics didn’t always appreciate ...

Given that, a new album seemed inevitable. “Instant Holograms on Metal Film” (Duophonic UHF/Warp), the group’s 11th LP, out Friday, is a worthy extension of its substantial legacy.

On Instant Holograms on Metal Film, Stereolab return not just with new music, but with renewed purpose. The band’s first studio album in 15 years asks how we might live meaningfully amid systems built ...

Lyrics were shot through with references to obscure Marxist theory, situationism, obsolete electronics catalogues and so on, with layer upon layer of absurdism and earnestness interleaved to the point ...

But in a way that feels almost playfully in spite of this cosy familiarity, Instant Holograms on Metal Film explores textures and melodies inspired by disco, techno, and lo-fi electronic music from ...

Everything you could want from a new Stereolab album – and more! Not that you would necessarily deduce this at first sight. Often when bands return to the fray after a long hiatus, they opt to ...

What better way to celebrate the end of Brexit — sorry, the new UK-EU treaty — than by delving into a new album by Stereolab, the Anglo-French group of lounge-pop sophisticates. And, as it ...

Instant Holograms on Metal Film is the kind of album that works on two levels. Either elite-level seductive dinner party music for the casual listener aiming for sophistication, or as a ...