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[[Stereolab]] were a French/English rock [[Insistent Terminology|groop]] who played what might best be described as either "avant-garde M.O.R." or "space age bachelor pad music". They formed in 1990 and were among the first wave of [[Post Rock]] musicians, mixing [[Kraut Rock]] rhythms and pointillist fuzzed-out guitar melodies with vintage synthesizers and lounge-pop influences. Said lounge-pop grew in influence over the years until, by 1997's ''Dots and Loops'', they were basically playing pop music--albeit, pop music from an alternate universe where [[Raygun Gothic]] never went out of fashion, where [[Burt Bacharach]] is revered as a musical god, and where 11 minutes is a perfectly normal song length.
Tim Gane (guitar and keys) and Lætitia Sadier (vocals, guitar, and keys) were the only permanent members of the groop. Mary Hansen (harmony vocals, guitar, and keys), who joined in 1992 and died in 2002, and Andy Ramsay (drums), who joined in 1993, were also considered key members during their tenure.
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They went on an indefinite hiatus in 2009.
For a comprehensive discography, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20131019110224/http://www.stereolab.co.uk/discography/list/ their website] or [
* ''Peng!'' (1992)
** ''Switched On Stereolab'' (1992) Collection of their first 3 EP's.
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* ''Not Music'' (2010)
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* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Very often. Mostly comes from Lætitia Sadier not being a native English speaker.
* [[After the End]]: "One Small Step".
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* [[Author Tract]]: The majority of their lyrics push a Marxist / Situationist worldview. Some are more subtle about it [[Anvilicious|than others]].
* [[Bread and Circuses]]: A few tracks from ''Dots and Loops'' seem to be about Spectacle, the Marxist concept that [[Escapism|escapist]] media merely exist to keep the masses from questioning the status quo.
{{quote|This is the future, of an illusion,
aggressive culture, of despotism.
Living fantasy, of an immortal;
the reality, of an animal.|"Contronatura"}}
* [[Creator Couple]]: Gane and Sadier were a couple until 2004. The two-year hiatus that separated ''Dots and Loops'' from ''Cobra and Phases Group...''? They took that time off to raise their child.
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* [[Inherited Illiteracy Title]]: ''The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music''. (Oddly enough, "Bachelor" was only misspelled on the front cover--the album spine and back cover spells it correctly.) Which also featured the song "The Groop Played Chord X" and inspired future album liner notes (and many a reviewer) to refer to the band as "the groop".
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "Ping-Pong", an upbeat ditty about a cycle of global economic depression, war, and all-too-brief economic recovery.
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** "Stunning Debut Album". Neither a debut nor an album.<ref>It was a vinyl single, and it was preceded by the ''Super 45'' EP.</ref>
** ''Not Music'' has more music than the title suggests.
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