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83
Cobra takes time to work its charm, but it’s well worth the effort.
80
While it can be difficult at times, Cobra is Stereolab at their near best.
80
Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night is one of their most representative albums in this sense; while too gargantuan and too evasive to make for a perfect starting point, it shows off the band’s boldness and tastefulness to extremes.
65
Cobra and Phases is rather like a good magazine with tantalizing pieces here and there rather than the great novel you can't put down until you're read every last word from cover to cover.
34
On Voltage, their eighth LP, Stereolab sink so deep into their socialist cocktail jazz schtick that they typify this flaw. Frigid noodling, insipid harmonies, and unmemorable repetition lazily waft from yawning French- poseurs.
0
This album is a sexless, emotionless, witless, cripplingly self-indulgent, pompously self-satisfied, intellectually hollow, achingly pretentious, stultifyingly bland, spiritually bereft, ideologically bankrupt, aesthetically repugnant, culturally pointless, musically sterile heap of shit.
7mo
The way they made a sequel that embodies everything I loved about Emperor Tomato Ketchup/ Dots and Loops; keeping the same quality, adding new flavors and textures to their characteristic sound, and still not making it feel boring or tired even in a lengthier project... WOW stereolab, you win.
no one can properly "review" this album without talking about the pitchfork score. not even gonna lie, that's what drew me to this album in the first place, "because the group who made Dots and Loops couldn't have dropped the bomb this hard, right?"
dude. this is beautiful. pop at it's artiest, lounge at it's most progressive. jazz and bossa nova at it's most electronic. and it's just beautiful too!!! "Fuses" has these complex drum fills, trumpet noodles, and when ... read more
It’s 1999, and Stereolab is back at it once more. After their biggest success yet with their prior album Dots And Loops, Stereolab continues their turn towards experimental pop and takes it down a more subdued and safer route. The result was Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night, which received more polarizing reviews despite a warm reception from fans. I think it’s one of Stereolab’s weaker projects. But this is also Stereolab I'm writing about. They made ... read more
It’s like funky, French, uptempo Yo La Tengo if that makes sense. Kind of random, but also Stereolab is the best possible band name for them it fits so perfectly
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Track List
| 1 | Fuses 3:37 | 95 |
| 2 | People Do It All the Time 3:41 | 93 |
| 3 | The Free Design 3:47 | 97 |
| 4 | Blips, Drips and Strips 4:27 | 92 |
| 5 | Italian Shoes Continuum 4:34 | 87 |
| 6 | Infinity Girl 3:53 | 99 |
| 7 | The Spiracles 3:40 | 88 |
| 8 | Op Hop Detonation 3:32 | 96 |
| 9 | Puncture In the Radak Permutation 5:48 | 92 |
| 10 | Velvet Water 4:21 | 81 |
| 11 | Blue Milk 11:28 | 86 |
| 12 | Caleidoscopic Gaze 8:08 | 90 |
| 13 | Strobo Acceleration 3:54 | 93 |
| 14 | The Emergency Kisses 5:53 | 95 |
| 15 | Come and Play In the Milky Night 4:38 | 96 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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1d
after a stressful day, the meditative and joyful sound of this album made me feel so much better that I nearly teared up. It reminded me of getting hugged by one of my best friends
3mo
Wait why is Blue Milk like 5 minutes longer on Spotify? Is this like exclusive to the deluxe version or something
Added on: December 30, 2014