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Double vinyl LP pressing. 1994 from the Indie/Post-Rock outfit. Mars Audiac Quintet saw Stereolab beginning to shed their experimental tendencies in favor of a post-modern space-age pop. The album exudes a sophisticated cool and catchiness that helped them gain new fans while straddling the line between their experimental-rock brethren and the ascending class of pre-millennial British pop. It's also the album that put them on the A-list of underground rock bands. Arguably the band's most accessible album, Mars Audiac Quintet not only features gentler textures than any of its predecessors, but also more upbeat and hooky songs.
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Think of a sober B-52s taking their inspiration from Brian Eno and the German synth pioneers of the '70s, and you'll have a sense of this English sextet's sound. --Jeff Bateman
Mars Audiac Quintet Reviews
Mars Audiac Quintet Reviews
| 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful  Most accessible of early Stereolab, By A Customer This review is from: Mars Audiac Quintet (Audio CD) I was just given this as a gift to complete a hole in my Stereolab collection. I hit play on the CD player, my jaw hit the table and didn't shut until it was over. If you own an early album by this band (Switched On, Refried Ectoplasm, Transient Random, etc.) and are wondering which one to get next, this is it. If you own later stuff by the band, are wondering what the earlier stuff is like, and don't like too much grit in your pop, this is the one too. Gorgeous drones, lots of repetition, drums and guitars, bilingual lyrics, analog synth washes, this one has it all. Classic Stereolab. Don't wait six years to get this like I did. 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful Possibly their best, By This review is from: Mars Audiac Quintet (Audio CD) When I first heard this album, I thought, "Oh, no, more organs, more repetition, same old drumbeat for every song, same old everything." However, a second listen is needed to fully appreciate this as a standalone album. With Peng! formerly being my favorite record by the groop, I was hoping to pick up Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements, their second album, but since there were none on the shelf, I settled for this, their third.Mundane (or actually just poor) album art aside, this one started as a disappointment and quickly skyrocketed up to the top of my list. Unlike their other albums, this one relies much more heavily on melody than harmony, which later albums do not reflect. Like any Stereolab (Dots and Loops aside), it's different, but it's still the same sound. It's much lighter-hearted and less distorted than the work on Refried Ectoplasm, but comparitively Refried Ectoplasm is the closest thing to this out there. My top five Stereolab... Read more 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful Brilliant Pop w/ intelligent subversive political undertones, By This review is from: Mars Audiac Quintet (Audio CD) This album, now ten years old, seems more relevant today than ever before, in our world of increasingly corrupt politicians and perverted concepts of "morality."To get a sense of Stereolab's sound, combine 70's German Krautrock (Neu!, Can, Faust, et al), Velvet Underground, Beach Boys backing vocals, bassanova and samba, space age bachelor pad music inventiveness, Pavement, Suicide, Mouse on Mars meets Tortoise; vintage instruments like farfisa, harmonium, moog, mellotron, vox organ, theremin; Nietsche, Marx and other communist ideas, French literature such as Baudelaire; an occasional pinch of goddess-based leanings; space exploration; and much much more. There is a lot in the mix, and they have never had qualms about blatantly ripping off obscure songs and literature, but they make it all so smooth and palatable and dreamy that it is just too irresistable. Their bag of goodies never seems to run out of vintage ideas from below the surface, and they have become... Read more |
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