Album · Stereolab
Sound‐Dust by Stereolab
Sound‐Dust is an album by Stereolab, released in 2001. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Captain Easychord”, on 1 list with a best position of #45.
Sound-Dust, Stereolab's seventh studio album, came out in North America on Elektra on 28 August 2001 and everywhere else on the band's own Duophonic label days later. They cut it in Chicago at Soma, John McEntire's studio, with McEntire and Jim O'Rourke producing, and their touch suits the band's vintage keyboards and chugging motorik pulse just fine.
It's a lush, woozy record, Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier's songs drifting between lounge-pop sweetness and odd, stop-start detours, with Sadier's voice slipping between English and French. "Nothing to Do with Me" even takes its words from Chris Morris's TV series Jam. It turned out to be the last Stereolab album with singer and guitarist Mary Hansen, who died in a cycling accident the following year, which lends her harmonies here an ache nobody could have planned. The first 1,200 copies came in a handmade book sleeve.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Sound‐Dust on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain Easychord | 1 | #45 | – | 2001 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.