Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

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To get a sense of where Stereolab was coming from early on, take a minute—18, actually—with “Jenny Ondioline.” Where The Velvet Underground’s “Sister Ray” used drone to mimic the warm surge of a heroin high, Stereolab’s drone on <i>Transient Random-Noise Bursts</i> was healthier, cleaner, progress-oriented, but with just the slightest twist of retro—the sound of monorail demonstrations and microwave oven, of a bright new plastic future. That the band’s lyrics tilted toward socialist readings (“Jenny Ondioline”), solidarity chants (“Analogue Rock”), and statements of political self-determination (“Our Trinitone Blast”) only supports the thesis that their propensity to play three chords for 10 minutes at a time was less an expression of being stoned than of being almost militantly unified: These were young, well-read bohemians prepared to change the world. .

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