Fab Four Suture
- Stereolab
- Band Name: Stereolab
- Record Label: Too Pure / Beggars Banquet
- Release Date: Mar 7, 2006
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90Compare this latest instalment of vivid, left-wing existentialist pop with past triumphs like Mars Audiac Quintet and Emperor Tomato Ketchup, and it's every bit as good. [Apr 2006, p.102]
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Stereolab is arguably better now than it's ever been.
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Vintage Stereolab. [#13, p.95]
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80Their naggingly overused Farfisa is balanced by otherwise beautifully layered, complex arrangements of trombone, electronics and harmony vox. [Apr 2006, p.118]
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80The album captures the band's unmistakable sound but they've also added some new flavors. [May 2006, p.91]
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Even more than Margerine Eclipse, Fab Four Suture sounds like Stereolab has adapted -- if not fully healed -- from the loss of Mary Hansen.
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These are talented writers/performers at the absolute top of their game. Just as relevant now as they ever were.
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80Quite a varied collection.
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80The formula is familiar... but the results can be stranger than recent 'Lab fare. [#71, p.91]
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Fab Four Suture is a virtual treasure map, a plane of possibility.
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80Fab Four Suture is a solid, satisfying listen front to back.
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Not mind-blowing, but still a worthy trip. [10 Mar 2006, p.69]
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This anthology of new and previously released 7" singles is inevitably somewhat dishevelled as an album, but then this extraordinary band has always worked best in bite-size.
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70It appears that the recording regime involved in focusing on a series of 7-inch singles rather than a new album has brought back some of the old creative spark.
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70It is a little more scattered than the last few proper Stereolab albums in terms of musical threads, but the urbane electro-funk of "Interlock" as well as the jittery disco pomp of "Eye of the Volcano" prove that Stereolab is still tweaking the formula with one foot in Esquivel's grave and the other several light years away.
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70Like all their best recordings, it sounds both like a "typical Stereolab album" and like nothing they've done before.
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66There is nothing intrinsically bad about it of course, but the album is consumed by the already menacingly "not intrinsically bad"-ness of their canon.
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Simultaneously a structural free-for-all and a glossy collection of diverse material.
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50The lack of a linear structure results in the individual songs banging against each other logjam-style, with the unfortunate effect that 'Fab Four Suture' begins to grate.
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Even longtime fans will have to wonder what the point is.
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There's no deely-bopping 'Wow And Flutter' on here. [4 Mar 2006, p.29]
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40With no fresh ideas or strong melodies to lighten the mood, [Sadier's] icy hauteur makes for bland and featureless listening. [Apr 2006, p.120]
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