Transient Random‐Noise Bursts With Announcements by Stereolab

Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements, Stereolab's second studio album, came out in August 1993 through the band's own Duophonic label and Elektra, and it finds the London group at its most bloody-minded. Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, the songwriting pair who built Stereolab after McCarthy fell apart, crank the guitars into distortion and let feedback and sour, clashing keyboards smear across the grooves.

It's also the first full album to feature Mary Hansen, on backing vocals, tambourine and guitar, and drummer Andy Ramsay, and the rhythm locks into that relentless motorik chug that gives the drone somewhere to go. Sadier's cool, unbothered voice floats over the din, and the Krautrock roots are worn proudly. "Jenny Ondioline" is the monster here, a hypnotic groove that rides on and on until it feels less like a song than a weather system.

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