Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film (2025) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:40 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Post Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Duophonic UHF Disks – Warp Records

Instant Holograms On Metal Film is the first Stereolab album in 15 years, featuring 13 new studio recordings. Played by Laetitia Sadier, Tim Gane, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz, with contributions from Cooper Crain and Rob Frye of Bitchin Bajas, Ben LaMar Gay (composer/jazz multi instrumentalist), Holger Zapf (Cavern of Anti Matter), Marie Merlet (Monade) and Molly Read among others. The groop will be playing live throughout 2025, with shows in Europe, North America, South America and the UK. The album follows Not Music released in 2010; remastered and expanded reissues of seven of their albums in 2019; and volumes 4 and 5 in the Switched On series appearing in 2021 and 2022 respectively.The arrival of a new Stereolab album in 2025 is a bit shocking. The arrival of a Stereolab album in 2025 with male vocals on the lead single—well, that’s enough to give indie rockers of a certain age a reason to grab their heart pills. While, to be sure, there have been random tunes here and there in the group’s extensive discography that have featured obscured male vocals blended into backing tracks, hearing bassist Xavier Muñoz Guimera taking a prominent harmony role on “Aerial Troubles” is the first indicator that Instant Holograms on Metal Film is a record that—even after a 15 year absence from the studio—does not find Stereolab adhering to expectations. (One of the true ironies of Stereolab’s existence is how, for many years, they were admonished for having so many songs that “sound the same,” but ultimately, the band has crafted one of the most sonically diverse and exploratory discographies of the last half century.)

Although many of the band’s signature elements are in place—warm keyboards, futuro-pastoral arrangements, chiming guitars, Laetitia Sadier singing revolutionary lyrics in her very specific Franco-English way—Instant Holograms maintains a very specific identity. Exploring an interesting middle ground between the spareness of a record like Dots and Loops (but with little of its bleepy-bloopiness) and the guitar-and-vocals jangle of Margerine Eclipse (but without its dizzying “dual-mono” intensity), this may be one of the most “band in a studio playing some songs”-sounding albums in Stereolab’s discography. There’s a lightness and gentle warmth to the entire proceeding, and much of the material is lacking the sonic density—and conceptual overdetermination—that the band has been known for. Even when a cut seems like it wants to feel like “old Stereolab”—the horns, gently strummed open chords, motorik beat, and burbling synths of “Vermona F Transistor,” the groovy synth-pop of “Electrified Teenybop!” acting like a goofy younger sibling to “We’re Not Adult Orientated”—there’s a defiant casualness to them that yields surprise after pleasant surprise. It’s the sound of a band at peace with their past, and their present, and also perhaps one with lots more to say yet. – Jason Ferguson

Tracklist:

1-1. Stereolab – Mystical Plosives (00:55)
1-2. Stereolab – Aerial Troubles (03:20)
1-3. Stereolab – Melodie Is A Wound (07:37)
1-4. Stereolab – Immortal Hands (06:25)
1-5. Stereolab – Vermona F Transistor (04:37)
1-6. Stereolab – Le Coeur Et La Force (04:21)
1-7. Stereolab – Electrified Teenybop! (04:16)
1-8. Stereolab – Transmuted Matter (04:16)
1-9. Stereolab – Esemplastic Creeping Eruption (06:04)
1-10. Stereolab – If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt. 1 (03:41)
1-11. Stereolab – Flashes From Everywhere (05:35)
1-12. Stereolab – Colour Television (05:33)
1-13. Stereolab – If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt. 2 (02:56)

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