| Artist |
Stereolab |
| Album Title: |
Margerine Eclipse |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Indie |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
01/27/2004 |
| Label |
Elektra Entertainment/Warner Communications Inc. |
| Catalog No |
62926-2 |
| Bar Code No |
0 75596 29262 7 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Vonal Declosion (3:33)
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| 2.
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Need To Be (4:50)
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| 3.
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"...Sudden Stars" (4:41)
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| 4.
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Cosmic Country Noir (4:47)
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| 5.
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La Demeure (4:36)
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| 6.
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Margerine Rock (2:55)
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| 7.
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The Man With 100 Cells (3:47)
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| 8.
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Margerine Melodie (6:18)
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| 9.
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Hillbilly Motobike (2:22)
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| 10.
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Feel And Triple (4:53)
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| 11.
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Bop Scotch (3:59)
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| 12.
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Dear Marge (6:56)
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| Date Acquired |
04/15/2006 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
| Purchase Price |
14.98 |
Notes |
Notes:
LP dedicated to Mary Hansen.....we will love you to the end.
Insert this disc into an Internet connected PC CD-ROM drive to gain access to more info including news, appearances, tour dates, albums, photos, contests, etc.
Recorded at Instant 0 in France Spring 2003
Recorded in Dual-Mono
All songs by Gane/Sadier, Copyright Control
Elektra Entertainment Group. Warner Music Group. A Time Warner company.
℗ © 2004 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc for the world outside of the United States excluding the United Kingdom.
Printed in USA.
Made in U.S.A. by WEA Manufacturing Inc.
Released in a standard jewel case with clear CD tray and a 8-page booklet with lyrics and credits.
Credits:
Bass – Simon Johns
Drum Machine, Synthesizer, Percussion – Fulton Dingley
Drums, Drum Machine – Andy Ramsay
Electric Guitar, Electronics, Organ – Tim Gane
Engineer – Fulton Dingley
Keyboards, Accordion, Electric Guitar – Sean O'Hagan
Management – Pikey
Mixed By – Fulton Dingley, The Groop
Organ, Electric Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta – Dominic Jeffery
Vocals [Singing] – Laetitia Sadier
Written-By – Sadier, Gane
Companies, etc.:
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Elektra Entertainment Group Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA International Inc.
Copyright © – Elektra Entertainment Group Inc.
Copyright © – WEA International Inc.
Record Company – Warner Music Group
Record Company – Time Warner
Made By – WEA Manufacturing Inc.
Published By – Copyright Control
Recorded At – Instant Zero
Glass Mastered At – Cinram, Olyphant, PA – Z21679
Pressed By – Cinram, Olyphant, PA
Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode (Text): 0 75596 29262 7
Barcode (Scanned): 075596292627
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DR09 -0.13 dB -10.10 dB 01 - Vonal Declosion.aif
DR10 -0.16 dB -12.53 dB 02 - Need To Be.aif
DR09 -0.11 dB -11.32 dB 03 - '...Sudden Stars'.aif
DR09 -0.12 dB -11.65 dB 04 - Cosmic Country Noir.aif
DR09 -0.09 dB -10.70 dB 05 - La Demeure.aif
DR08 -0.12 dB -09.31 dB 06 - Margerine Rock.aif
DR09 -0.14 dB -11.56 dB 07 - The Man With 100 Cells.aif
DR09 -0.07 dB -10.49 dB 08 - Margerine Melodie.aif
DR08 -0.12 dB -10.75 dB 09 - Hillbilly Motobike.aif
DR10 -0.10 dB -12.92 dB 10 - Feel And Triple.aif
DR08 -0.12 dB -11.12 dB 11 - Bop Scotch.aif
DR09 -0.11 dB -11.53 dB 12 - Dear Marge.aif
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Number of Files: 12
Official DR Value: DR9
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review by Heather Phares:
While making Margerine Eclipse, Stereolab encountered more than their fair share of hardships and heartbreak. Just before the band started the album's sessions, keyboardist/vocalist Mary Hansen died at just 36 when the bicycle she was riding was hit by a truck in December 2002. Despite their loss, Stereolab decided to continue recording at the new studio they were building in the Médoc region of France but had difficulties completing its construction. It's something of a miracle, then, that Margerine Eclipse not only exists but is some of the most joyful music of Stereolab's latter-day career. The fizzy "Margerine Rock" sounds like it could've appeared on a volume of Switched On -- and as a matter of fact, the band reinterpreted unused recordings they made for Carlton Television back in 1992 throughout the album. Here and on "Bop Scotch"'s synthy surf-rock, they return to the effortless fun that informed their music prior to Dots and Loops. "Hillbilly Motobike" is another breezy standout, although it's one of many moments on Margerine Eclipse where Hansen's absence is palpable. It's easy to hear where she and Laetitia Sadier would have traded vocals on the exceptionally beautiful "Cosmic Country Noir," and when Sadier sings "changes are coming anyway" on "The Man with 100 Cells," there's a bittersweet cast to its revolutionary viewpoint. "Feel and Triple" may be the most overt homage to their fallen friend, but the loss of Hansen also shadows songs like "...Sudden Stars." As coolly lovely as it was on the Instant 0 in the Universe EP, its delicate, measured synth and graceful vocal lines are even more poignant thanks to lyrics such as "If you must go, go." Elsewhere, Stereolab continue Sound-Dust's trend of streamlining and tweaking sounds they explored previously. "La Demeure," a mix of Raymond Scott-like synth sparkles and brass set to unpredictable rhythmic and melodic shifts, plays like a microcosm of the worlds they discovered on Dots and Loops and Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night. The influence of longtime friend and collaborator Sean O'Hagan surfaces on "Vonal Déclosion"'s twangy guitars and lush strings and on "Dear Marge," where languid guitars and silky vocals threaten to slide off into a blissful haze before the band reprise the surprisingly convincing disco interlude they introduced on Instant 0 in the Universe's "Mass Riff." Moments like this make Margerine Eclipse a strong, surprisingly reinvigorated album from a band dedicated to pushing themselves, no matter what the circumstances.
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