First chart entry with Jenny Ondioline

In January 1994, Stereolab achieved their first chart entry when the 1993 EP Jenny Ondioline , entered at number 75 on the UK Singles Chart . (Over the next three years, four more releases by the band would appear on this chart, ending with the EP Miss Modular in 1997.) Their third album, Mars Audiac Quintet , was released in August 1994. The album contains the single ” Ping Pong “, which gained press coverage for its explicitly Marxist lyrics. The band focused more on pop and less on rock, resulting in what AllMusic described as “what may be the group’s most accessible, tightly-written album”. It was the last album to feature O’Hagan as a full-time member. He would continue to make guest appearances on later releases. The group issued an EP titled Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center in April 1995. The EP was their musical contribution to an interactive art exhibit put on in collaboration with New York City artist Charles Long. Their second compilation of rarities, titled Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On, Vol. 2) , was released in July 1995.