The band are set to headline We Out Here Festival in Dorset , UK in August 2026.
On 8 April 2025, the band announced their first album of brand-new material in 15 years, Instant Holograms on Metal Film . It was accompanied by the release of “Aerial Troubles” as a single and music video on the same day. To the disappointment of many fans, the video was…
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In February 2019, the group announced a tour of Europe and the United States to coincide with expanded, remastered reissues of several of the albums released under Warp Records . Stereolab were part of the lineup for 2019’s Primavera Sound festival, taking part on the weekend of 30 May in…
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After making several remixes for other acts in the early 1990s, Air recorded their first EP, Premiers Symptômes , in 1997. The band would sign to Virgin Records and Astralwerks following the EP’s success. The band’s debut full-length album, Moon Safari , was released on 16 January, 1998. Air would…
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In April 2009, Stereolab manager Martin Pike announced a pause in their activities for the time being. He said that it was an opportune time for the members to move on to other projects. Not Music , a collection of unreleased material recorded at the same time as Chemical Chords…
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In 2009, the duo released their self-produced fifth studio album Love 2 . In 2012, Air released their second film score , and sixth studio album, Le voyage dans la Lune . Air would further work on an ambient based soundtrack for the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille with their…
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The group released six limited-edition singles in 2005 and 2006, which were anthologised in the 2006 compilation Fab Four Suture , and contained material which Mark Jenkins thought continued the brisker sound of the band’s post-Hansen work. By June 2007, Stereolab’s line-up comprised Tim Gane, Lætitia Sadier, Andy Ramsay, Simon…
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Stereolab’s eighth album, Margerine Eclipse , was released on 27 January 2004 with generally positive reviews, and peaked at number 174 on the US Billboard 200. The track “Feel and Triple” was written in tribute to Hansen; Sadier said, “I was reflecting on my years with her … reflecting on…
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On 26 January 2004, the duo released their third studio album Talkie Walkie . Produced by Nigel Godrich , the album spawned three singles: ” Cherry Blossom Girl “, ” Surfing On a Rocket “, which peaked at number 31 in the Billboard Top 40, and ” Alpha Beta Gaga…
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The EP Instant 0 in the Universe (October 2003) was recorded in France, and was Stereolab’s first release following Hansen’s death. Music journalist Jim DeRogatis said that the EP marked a return to their earlier, harder sound, “free from the pseudo-funk moves and avant-garde tinkering” of its predecessors.