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Track Listing
1. Tone Burst - (French)
2. Our Trinitone Blast
3. Pack Yr Romantic Mind
4. I'm Going Out of My Way
5. Golden Ball
6. Pause - (French, German)
7. Jenny Ondioline
8. Analogue Rock
9. Crest
10. Lock-Groove Lullaby
| Details | | Producer: | Phil Wright | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Stereolab: Laetitia Sadier (vocals, guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, tambourine); Mary Hansen (vocals, guitar, tambourine); Tim Gane (guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, percussion); Sean O'Hagan (guitar, Vox & Farfisa organs); Duncan Brown (guitar, bass, background vocals); Andy Ramsay (bazouki, Vox organ, percussion).
Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London, England in May, 1993.
Stereolab's brilliantly-titled third album is the first fully-realized example of the band's unique vision that combined the mechanical rhythms of early-'70s krautrock and the lush romantic flourishes of '60s soft pop in the Astrud Gilberto/Dionne Warwick tradition. To this mix the band added the relentless drones and political fixations of late-'80s British indie guitar bands such as McCarthy (Stereolab leaders Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier's first band) and the gorgeous textures of vintage analogue synthesizers.
Packaged in a perfect reproduction of the sleeve of an early-'60s hi-fi test disc, complete with technical liner notes, TRANSIENT RANDOM-NOISE BURSTS WITH ANNOUNCEMENTS follows one wonderful track with another, culminating in the astonishing 18-minute "Jenny Ondioline," an obsessive explorations of all the sonic and melodic possibilities of one chord, overlaid with creamy Beach Boys-style harmonies and Sadier's melodic trill. The song, like the rest of the album, is a definitive moment in '90s indiepop.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #24 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (03/01/1994)
Ranked #15 on Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993.
Melody Maker (01/01/1994)
...With TRANSIENT RANDOM NOISE, the 'groop' moves from Hanna Barbera spaceland straight to 2001 and beyond....[This album] has a mandate to wreak aural havoc...
Spin (10/01/1993)
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