Stereolab – Dots and Loops [2LP] Sound Art / Sound Poetry Cuts like Illumination and Unchanging

Cuts like Illumination and Unchanging Window embody their fusion of melancholia and unease

Pure documents Gutteridge’s stunning use of 4-track as instrument

shortwave radio and custom DIY circuitry

Concerts are forthcoming at Unsound Festival in Krakow

earlier recordings have been developed from a sound palette painted by abstruse metallic constructions – Inferior State helps clarity Värttö’s primary voice

Stereolab – Dots and Loops [2LP] Sound Art / Sound Poetry Cuts like Illumination and Unchanging"Regarded by many people to be their masterpiece, 1997's much loved Dots And Loops saw "the groop" embrace new recording techniques and a wider palette of influences to produce an expansive, experimental but eminently listenable piece of work that has more than withstood the test of time. Recorded partly in Chicago by John McEntire of Tortoise, and partly in Dsseldorf with Mouse On Mars, the band expanded their motorik rhythms to take in elements of