Released in September 1997, Dots and Loops was their first album to enter the Billboard 200 charts , peaking at number 111. The album leaned towards jazz with bossa nova and ’60s pop influences. Barney Hoskyns wrote in Rolling Stone that with it the group moved “ever further away from the one-chord Velvets drone-mesh of its early days” toward easy-listening and Europop . A review in German newspaper Die Zeit stated that in Dots and Loops , Stereolab transformed the harder Velvet Underground-like riffs of previous releases into “softer sounds and noisy playfulness”. Contributors to the album included McEntire and Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars . Stereolab toured for seven months and took a break when Gane and Sadier had a child. The group’s third compilation of rarities, Aluminum Tunes , was issued in October 1998.
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