Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Stereolab
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Release Date: 28/02/2025
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'.
1: Fuses
2: People Do It All the Time
3: The Free Design
4: Blips Drips and Strips
5: Italian Shoes Continuum
6: Infinity Girl
7: The Spiracles
8: Op Hop Detonation
9: Puncture in the Radar Permutation
10: Velvet Water
11: Blue Milk
12: Caleidoscopic Gaze
13: Strobo Acceleration
14: The Emergency Kisses
15: Come and Play in the Milky Night