Stereolab Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night

• 1. Fuses
• 2. People Do It All The Time
• 3. The Free Design
• 4. Blips Drips And Strips
• 5. Italian Shoes Continuum
• 6. Infinity Girl
• 7. The Spiracles
• 8. Op Hop Detonation
• 9. Puncture In The Radax Permutation
• 10. Velvet Water
• 11. Blue Milk
• 12. Caleidoscopic Gaze
• 13. Strobo Acceleration
• 14. The Emergency Kisses
• 15. Come And Play In The Milky Night

This 1999 long-player from Stereolab featuring a cast of thousands (or thereabouts), you'll notice Jim O'Rourke, The High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan, Tortoise drummer/producer John McEntire and Rob Mazurek of Chicago Underground fame. With all these fine musicians, Cobra And Phases Group is surely Stereolab's most sonically lavish long-player, putting every conceivable instrument (particularly ones that were popular in the 1970s, such as the clavinet and electric harpsichord) to good use.

The sophisticated dalliances with progged-up, fusionist lounge-jazz are likely to send many running to the hills, but there's real magic at work in certain corners of this album. Just listen to the David Axelrod-like strings and baroque keys of The Emergency Kisses.