Stereolab Share New Music “Transmuted Matter” From Their First New Album in 15 Years
Instantaneous Holograms on Metallic Movie Due Out This Friday through Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp
Could 20, 2025
Pictures by Joe Dilworth
Stereolab are releasing Instantaneous Holograms on Metallic Movie, their first new album in 15 years, this Friday through Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp. Now they’ve launched the album’s third and remaining pre-release single, “Transmuted Matter.” Take heed to the tune under.
Stereolab’s Tim Gane had this to say concerning the new album in a press launch: “The thought to file a brand new LP got here into focus round spring/summer time 2023 and we began recording in January 2024. There have been no rehearsals, as typical. We began once more from scratch. ‘All the time a newbie’ is my angle to issues, simply feeling my approach by. Music is simply an thrilling journey and I don’t have any trepidation about doing it or presenting it to others. What comes out comes out.”
Singer Laetitia Sadier says: “I see every thing as a continuum with no decided sections, that bears no relation to what has come earlier than or will come after. Within the case of Stereolab, Tim is main composer. On this LP, I did, nevertheless, have rather more musical enter than earlier than. And certainly I had had some follow by growing my very own music over the previous years, which certainly nourished the sound and normal configuration.”
Sadier writes the band’s lyrics and needed to say about the subject material on Instantaneous Holograms on Metallic Movie: “Because the world falls aside, whether or not we realize it or not, we’re already planting the seeds of what’s going to come subsequent. I feel you will need to maintain in sight what highly effective creators we’re, and the way there’s energy out there to us at this stage to decide on what final result we want to see for this but undefined future. The phrases search to show that that is what we do: we create. Our creativeness is right here to serve that goal, and is the ability we now have to decide on no matter it’s we wish to see come about. Some privileged individuals don’t like the concept of sharing this energy with the individuals at massive.”
Beforehand Stereolab shared the album’s first single, “Aerial Troubles,” through a music video. “Aerial Troubles” was #2 on our Songs of the Week listing. Then they launched the album’s second single, “Melodie Is a Wound,” together with an accompanying crossword puzzle. “Melodie Is a Wound” was #1 on our Songs of the Week listing.
Stereolab’s final studio album was 2010’s Not Music, though regardless of an indefinite hiatus the band has remained energetic since then reissuing older albums and since 2019 they’ve been touring. The band is led by founding members Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane and in addition contains Andy Ramsay, Joseph Watson, and Xavier Muñoz Guimera. Instantaneous Holograms on Metallic Movie additionally options Cooper Crain, Rob Frye, Ben LaMar Homosexual, Ric Elsworth, Holger Zapf, Marie Merlet, and Molly Learn.
Instantaneous Holograms on Metallic Movie was teased with an “Aerial Troubles” 7-inch being mailed to pick followers (with an instrumental model of the tune on the B-side). Cryptic posters that includes a Stereolab phrase search additionally appeared in some main cities.
Sadier launched a brand new solo album, Rooting For Love, in 2024 through Drag Metropolis.
In 2021, Sadier guested on Jarvis Cocker’s cowl of Dalida’s 1973 duet with Alain Delon, “Paroles, Paroles.” It was featured on Cocker’s album, Chansons D’Ennui Tip-Prime, which was a companion piece to Wes Anderson’s movie, The French Dispatch.
Additionally learn our 2014 interview with Sadier or our 2010 interview the place Sadier and Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox interviewed one another.
Stereolab Tour Dates:
Europe Dates:
+ = Astrobal
* = TBC
5/24 – Dover, UK @ The Reserving Corridor * SOLD OUT
5/25 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique Les Nuits Botanique
5/26 – Köln, DE @ Gloria
5/28 – Hamburg, DE @ Grunspan
5/29 – Berlin, DE @ Huxley Neue Welt
5/30 – Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom
5/31 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
6/1 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
6/3 – Nantes, FR @ Stereolux +
6/4 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon + SOLD OUT
6/5 – Bordeaux, FR @ Barbey +
6/6 – Barcelona, ESP @ Primavera Sound + SOLD OUT
6/7 – Madrid, ESP @ Teatro Eslava +
6/9 – Grenoble, FR @ La Belle Electrique +
6/10 – Ferrara, IT @ Ferrara Sotto le Stelle
6/11 – Zurich, CH @ Volkshaus +
6/12 – Munich, DE @ Hansa 36 +
6/14 – Zagreb, CR @ Tvornica Kulture +
6/15 – Budapest, HU @ A38 Ship +
6/16 – Vienna, AU @ WUK +
6/17 – Prague, CZ @ Meet Manufacturing unit +
6/19 – Schorndorf, DE – Manufaktur +
6/20 – Luxembourg, LU @ Den Atelier +
7/11 – Cagliari, SD, IT @ Siren Pageant
North American Dates:
+ = Memorials
@ = Dorothea Paas & Bitchin’ Bajas / Pure Info Society
* = Bitchin’ Bajas
^ = TBC
9/13 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl +
9/14 – Atlanta, GA @ Selection Playhouse +
9/16 – Miami, FL @ Miami Seaside Bandshell +
9/18 – New Orleans, LA @ The Civic Theatre +
9/19 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre +
9/20 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel +
9/21 – Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom SOLD OUT +
9/23 – Washington, D.C. @ The Howard Theatre +
9/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Switch SOLD OUT +
9/26 – Boston, MA @ Royale +
9/27 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre +
10/1 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Metal SOLD OUT +
10/2 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Metal @
10/3 – Burlington, VT @ Larger Floor SOLD OUT @
10/4 – Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield SOLD OUT @
10/6 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Corridor SOLD OUT @
10/7 – Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Corridor @
10/8 – Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron @
10/9 – Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT @
10/10 – Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT
10/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue @
10/12 – Iowa Metropolis, IA @ Hancher Auditorium on the Englert Theatre @
10/14 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre @
10/17 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre *
10/18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre SOLD OUT *
10/19 – Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom*
10/21 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom SOLD OUT *
10/22 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom ^
10/24 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre SOLD OUT *
10/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether SOLD OUT *
10/26 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether SOLD OUT ^
10/28 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park *
10/30 – Marfa, TX @ The Capri SOLD OUT *
10/31 – Austin, TX @ TBC
11/1 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Corridor *
11/2 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre *
Latin American Dates:
11/4 – Buenos Aires, ARG @ Complejo Artwork Media
11/7 – Santiago, CHI @ Fauna Primaversa
11/9 – São Paulo, BRA @ Balaclava Pageant
11/12 – Mexico Metropolis, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks! SOLD OUT
11/13 – Mexico Metropolis, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks!
UK Dates:
12/5 – Brighton, UK @ Corn Change
12/6 – London, UK @ Royal Pageant Corridor SOLD OUT
12/8 – Glasgow, UK @ SWG3
12/9 – Leeds, UK @ Mission Home
12/11 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz
12/12 – Wolverhampton, UK @ College of Wolverhampton on the Wulfrun Corridor
12/13 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy
12/14 – London, UK @ Brixton Electrical
