One of my very infrequent posts but Mr Casarotto hit the nail right on the head when he said
I've finally come to realise that my trooping to the shop on the day a new 'lab album is released is just stupid - they left the love behind a long time ago. It's not real. It's bad pop. Just listen to "Lo Boob Oscillator", which I think was the last postcard-perfect thing they ever did (it's on the High Fidelity soundtrack), and then a random track off any of the last three or four LPs, and tell me which is more magical.
I can remember seeing Stereolab at the Boardwalk in Manchester quite early on and they were filled with glistening pop tunes and put on a bloody grate performance. Now sadly they seem to be ploughing the same old rut again and again. I'm selling lots of records I no longer listen too and while Switched On and Peng! will continue to reside in my record collection I'm afraid that Dots & Loops won't. So theres going to be no Belle & Sebastian concerts for another 18 months. Probably when they will tour again they won't come to Hong Kong either, damn. One of these days I'm expecting to read that somebody has put together a B & S tribute band, like the Australian Pink Floyd or Bootleg Beatles or something. This B & S tribute could call themselves something like Electronic Renaissance or The Dogs on Wheels or something. What a scary thought! Richard Lander Lamma Island, Hong Kong +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+