Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night

Description

This 1999 long-player from Stereolab featuring a cast of thousands (or thereabouts), you’ll notice Jim O’Rourke, The High Llamas’ Sean O’Hagan, Tortoise drummer/producer John McEntire and Rob Mazurek of Chicago Underground fame. With all these fine musicians, ‘Cobra and Phases Group…’ is surely Stereolab’s most sonically lavish long-player, putting every conceivable instrument (particularly ones that were popular in the 1970s, such as the clavinet and electric harpsichord) to good use. The sophisticated dalliances with progged-up, fusionist lounge-jazz are likely to send many running to the hills, but there’s real magic at work in certain corners of this album. Just listen to the David Axelrod-like strings and baroque keys of ‘The Emergency Kisses’.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Fuses – Stereolab (3.41)
2. People Do It All the Time – Stereolab (3.42)
3. The Free Design – Stereolab (3.48)
4. Blips Drips and Strips – Stereolab (4.29)
5. Italian Shoes Continuum – Stereolab (4.36)
6. Infinity Girl – Stereolab (3.56)
7. The Spiracles – Stereolab (3.41)
8. Op Hop Detonation – Stereolab (3.33)
9. Puncture in the Radar Permutation – Stereolab (5.50)
10. Velvet Water – Stereolab (4.23)
11. Blue Milk – Stereolab (11.30)
12. Caleidoscopic Gaze – Stereolab (8.09)
13. Strobo Acceleration – Stereolab (3.56)
14. The Emergency Kisses – Stereolab (5.54)
15. Come and Play in the Milky Night – Stereolab (4.39)