Not Music

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AlbumAug 18 / 201013 songs, 56m 24s
Art Pop Indie Pop Indietronica Post-Rock
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The best of the rest of Stereolab's last session has risen up and is walking like a monster of an album! Some of their bumpin'-est beats ever spread out over four sides to keep the Stereolab party going long after their day's end. Begging the question, if this is "Not Music," then what is?

7.5 / 10

As Stereolab take a hiatus, they leave us with a new LP of material recorded during the same sessions that produced Chemical Chords.

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With Laetitia Sadier’s solo album earlier this year—which evokes the cool, if not the configuration, of Stereolab’s spacey jams—and now Not Music, it’s difficult to mourn the post-rock pioneer’s indefinite hiatus. These 13 songs are the result of the same 2007 recording sessions that produced the bluff, poppy “Motown…

The best tracks here are the remixes.

5.0 / 10

Last year, Stereolab announced that the band was taking a break to focus on other projects. Over the course of two decades they released a string of albums and singles that built a sizable following as the players developed and reworked the blueprint of t

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Could this be the last we ever hear from Stereolab?

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Not Music, uneven and understated, is a fitting epitaph.

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