Product Overview
Stereolab's first full-length recording without guitarist/vocalist Mary Hansen, who died in a tragic accident in December of 2002, Margerine Eclipse finds the band soldiering on in admirable fashion. Essentially picking up where they left off on 2001's Sound-Dust, the group continues to employ their trademark blend of vintage keyboards, airy French/English vocals, and frothy lounge-meets-electronica pop sensibilities. That's not to say that there absolutely no new developments; one can hear the occasional dash of hip-hop rhythm ("La Demeure"), Autechre-like laptop glitch-pop ("Vonal Declosion"), and even a bit of disco (at the end of album-closer "Dear Marge") amid the familiarly odd time signatures, quirky socio-political lyrical observations, and postmodern retro-futurism.
Tracklist:
| A1 | Vonal Declosion | |
| A2 | Need To Be | |
| A3 | "...Sudden Stars" | |
| B1 | Cosmic Country Noir | |
| B2 | La Demeure | |
| B3 | Margerine Rock | |
| C1 | The Man With 100 Cells | |
| C2 | Margerine Melodie | |
| C3 | Hillbilly Motobike | |
| D1 | Feel And Triple | |
| D2 | Bop Scotch | |
| D3 | Dear Marge | |
| E1 | Mass Riff | |
| E2 | Good Is Me | |
| E3 | Microclimate | |
| E4 | Mass Riff Instrumental | |
| F1 | Jaunty Monty And The Bubbles Of Silence | |
| F2 | Banana Monster Ne Répond Plus | |
| F3 | University Microfilms International | |
| F4 | Rose, My Rocket-Brain! (Rose, Le Cerveau Electronique de Ma Fusée!) |
