Stereolab - Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage 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.

Tracklist:

A1 Fuses
A2 People Do It All The Time
A3 The Free Design
A4 Blips Drips And Strips
A5 Italian Shoes Continuum
B1 Infinity Girl
B2 The Spiracles
B3 Op Hop Detonation
B4 Puncture In The Radax Permutation
B5 Velvet Water
C Blue Milk
D1 Caleidoscopic Gaze
D2 Strobo Acceleration
D3 The Emergency Kisses
D4 Come And Play In The Milky Night