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Media Type: CD
Artist: STEREOLAB
Title: DOTS & LOOPS
Street Release Date: 09/23/1997
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Genre: ROCK/POP | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| September 23, 1997 | | Studio:
| Elektra / Wea | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 70 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Brakhage | | 2. | Miss Modular | | 3. | The Flower Called Nowhere | | 4. | Diagonals | | 5. | Prisoner of Mars | | 6. | Rainbo Conversation | | 7. | Refractions in the Plastic Pulse | | 8. | Parsec | | 9. | Ticker-Tape of the Unconscious - Stereolab, | | 10. | Contronatura | |
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 ClassicNov 09, 2009
Stereolab have always been critical darlings, and deservedly so. Anyone that can draw from the sources this band does and make such beautiful music deserves all the praise they can get.
That is all the more reason it angers me that Emporor Tomato Katchup is given high praise while Dots and Loops gets the shaft among professioanal music writters who are just to hip to be happy. Actually, these eletist idiots are not hip at all; they think that since Katchup draws from funk, music the self-appointed professors consider "edgey," and Stereolab had the nerve to follow it up with an album that the critics didn't think they should make, Dots deserves all the condisending smears it gets
Well, we know that it garbage. When you take underused sources- 1960s Euro soundtracks, hidden psychadelia, and some avant gaurde-and decided to make them into a definative album, you get Dots and Loops
Stereolab have never done better at creating nuance as they have here. The clavanets sound like falling snow, the strings like treetops shedding in the fall. Listening, I can see Briget Bardot or Anna Kerinana standing on a ski slope in 60s Europe, or walking through the French Woods on a autuam evening. I find the music comforting, insperational and mind-blowing
Dots and Loops is a study in texture and mood, a big 1960s Euro romance made into an album and not a film. You don't need a movie for this music/
The movie in your mind Stereolab creates with Dots and Loops will be one of the best you'll ever see.
 Compelling but not coheisveAug 21, 2009
3 1/2
Still as hip as the day it was released, Stereolab's smoothly organic electro is in full-fledged experimental swing here, though despite providing another lengthy digital stimulation with many fascinating ideas and consistently great segments, D&L just feels too scattershot for its own good, coming across as a jumbling spill of innovative audio entertainment.
Stereolab's bestJul 23, 2009
I discovered Stereolab one day by chance while sitting in a local coffee shop. I asked what that 60s / 70s sound was. I've since purchased 4 of their albums, liking a few songs here and there. Dots and Loops however I can listen to the whole thing through and deeply enjoy every single track.
The Flower Called Nowhere is especially beautiful to me, empathically dancing between so many dimensions. I actually woke up with this track in my head right after having a very profound dream one morning - after having only listened to the album once or twice.
I like a number of Stereolab tracks, but many seem to be only one or two dimensional. This album has been a great exception to what I've heard so far. Highly recommended.
Thank you VW!Jul 20, 2009
Sometimes paying attention to the commercials can be rewarding. Back in 2001 I was watching something on TV when an ad for the new VW Beetle came on. The ad was clever but what really drew me in was the music, which I later discovered was "Parsec" by Stereolab. That ad led me to buy "Dots and Loops" and become mesmerized by the deeply evocative sounds of this wonderful group. From start to finish this recording captures moods, tones and feelings better than most poetry or painting. Finally, commerce in the service of art!
Stereolab's best album to date...Mar 24, 2009
My introduction to the groop was through acquiring Emperor Tomato Ketchup & Dots and Loops the same day. While both are good records, I found Dots to be the more endearing of the two, and the only Lab album i can listen to without skipping a single track. This is mood music at it's finest. Stress release on headphones at max volume, or perfect background music for a martini party. Even good to cook dinner to. The real tour de force on this record is the 17-minute Refractions in the Plastic Pulse, which eases from one sound to the next, a progression of 4 different variations on the same lovely theme...a wonderful journey. It should also be noted that The Flower Called Nowhere is one of the most dazzling bits of beauty to have been created in the past 15 years. The Lab have a penchant for stumbling onto gorgeous melodies and weaving in socially relevant content without sounding forced or preachy. I consider this to be a flawless album. It's also a great intro to the style of music one will continue to enjoy from Monade & The High Llamas. You owe yourself this experience (over & over)...
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