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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 (InchLa DemeureInch), Autechre-like laptop glitch-pop (InchVonal DeclosionInch), and even a bit of disco (at the end of album-closer InchDear MargeInch) amid the familiarly odd time signatures, quirky socio-political lyrical observations, and postmodern retro-futurism. Album Tracks 1. Vonal Declosion 2. Need to Be 3. Sudden Stars 4. Cosmic Country Noir 5. La Demeure 6. Margerine Rock 7. The Man with 100 Cells 8. Margerine Melodie 9. Hillbilly Motorbike 10. Feel and Triple 11. Bop Scotch 12. Dear Marge 1. Mass Riff 2. Good Is Me 3. Microclimate 4. Mass Riff Instrumental 5. Jaunty Monty and the Bubbles of Silence 6. Banana Monster Ne Répond Plus 7. University Microfilms International 8. Rose, My Rocket-Brain! (Rose, Le Cerveau Electronique de Ma Fusée!)
