Throughout the ’90s, Stereolab averaged a new album every 15 months. ![]() The UK band’s first decade played out like a game of hide-and-seek across scattered black (and yellow, pink, clear, and marbled) discs: 7"s, 10"s, flexi-discs, split singles, tour-only souvenirs, oddball one-offs. For die-hard listeners, that meant compiling miscellany on cassette and sequencing it into a form that didn’t require hours crouched over a turntable, changing records every few songs-an early form of today’s playlisting.Ĭhief among the groups helping fuel the decade’s sales of Maxell XLIIs and TDK SA90s were Stereolab. Much of a band’s activity took place on singles, EPs, compilations, and other formats extraneous to the long-playing studio album. In the 1990s, being an indie fan required a deep familiarity with the blank tape.
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