Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The groop has finally returned after 15 years! The results are pretty much exactly what you'd expect on an instrumental level, but boy did they make sure to highlight in their lyrics how much the times have changed since the days when they last left off putting out new studio material.
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My new album "Real Life and Postcard Use" out now: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-and-postcard-use
Listen: stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/instant-holograms-on-metal-film
More Catalogs In Brief: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL6p96Hw0ZVQDVErltFJydSo
Favorite Tracks: Mystical Plosives, Aerial Troubles, Melodie Is A Wound, Immortal Hands, Vermona F Transistor, Electrified Teenybop!, Transmuted Matter, If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt. 1, Flashes From Everywhere
Least Favorite Track: Esemplastic Creeping Eruption
Overall Rating: 7.5/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this video's upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.
The groop has finally returned after 15 years! The results are pretty much exactly what you'd expect on an instrumental level, but boy did they make sure to highlight in their lyrics how much the times have changed since the days when they last left off putting out new studio material.
Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/TheWonkyAngle
My new album "Real Life and Postcard Use" out now: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-and-postcard-use
Listen: stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/instant-holograms-on-metal-film
More Catalogs In Brief: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL6p96Hw0ZVQDVErltFJydSo
Favorite Tracks: Mystical Plosives, Aerial Troubles, Melodie Is A Wound, Immortal Hands, Vermona F Transistor, Electrified Teenybop!, Transmuted Matter, If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt. 1, Flashes From Everywhere
Least Favorite Track: Esemplastic Creeping Eruption
Overall Rating: 7.5/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this video's upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.
![DJ DanceAlone - Owl Theory (Album Review & Catalog In Brief) [Patreon Request]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cLrzNvGXax0/mqdefault.jpg "DJ DanceAlone - Owl Theory (Album Review & Catalog In Brief) [Patreon Request]
The small-time Memphis techno artist also known as Dakuan returns to his primary recording alias to make a challenging semi-experimental swerve that gets way more overtly political. The messaging is great, though musically the results could be pretty messy. (Also I checked out his old albums and theres some solid stuff there too.)
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWonkyAngle
Listen: https://djdancealone.bandcamp.com/album/owl-theory
Memphis Innovation review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2bjc7uEfs
More Patreon-requested reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL5ueXeqSgMqMaLTL8zC2BAz
Favorite Tracks: Sliced Ice, Insecure, Another World, War Panic, Black Marxist, Ignore The Bronx, You Should Have Known
Least Favorite Track: For The People
Overall Rating: 7.3/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this videos upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.")
