Jenny Ondioline by Stereolab

Jenny Ondioline, Stereolab's 1993 EP on Duophonic, was the lead single from Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements, and it caught the Anglo-French band at full motorik gallop. Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier steer, with Mary Hansen's backing vocals and keyboards, Andy Ramsay's drums and Sean O'Hagan on guitar and keys: vintage keyboards droning, beats locked in a hypnotic chug, Sadier singing in English and French over the top.

The surprise was "French Disco", a buzzing, breakneck pop song that British radio grabbed hold of, so much so that some UK copies came stickered to advertise it and it got co-billing on the band's first entry on the UK singles chart. John Peel's listeners put the title track at number 39 in his Festive Fifty for 1993, and a re-recorded "French Disko" at number 5. Editors and the Raveonettes later covered it. In America it was the band's first Elektra release, dressed in the label's old 1970s logo at the band's request.

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