Stereolab’s seventh album, Sound-Dust (August 2001), rose to number 178 on the Billboard 200. The album also featured producers McEntire and O’Rourke. Sound-Dust was more warmly received than Cobra and Phases Group. Critic Joshua Klein said that “the emphasis this time sounds less on unfocused experimentation and more on melody … a breezy and welcome return to form for the British band.” Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated that the album “[finds the group] deliberately recharging their creative juices” but he argued that Sound-Dust was “anchored in overly familiar territory.”
Released Sound-Dust
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