Track Listing
1. Tone Burst
2. Our Trinitone Blast
3. Pack Yr Romantic Mind
4. I'm Going Out Of My Way
5. Golden Ball
6. Pause
7. Jenny Ondioline
8. Analogue Rock
9. Crest
10. Lock-Groove Lullaby
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Phil Wright | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | PIAS UK/Sony DADC | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Stereolab: Laetitia Sadier (vocals, guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, tambourine); Mary Hansen (vocals, guitar, tambourine); Tim Gane (guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, percussion); Sean O'Hagan (guitar, Vox & Farfisa organs); Duncan Brown (guitar, bass, background vocals); Andy Ramsay (bazouki, Vox organ, percussion).Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London, England in May, 1993.Stereolab's brilliantly-titled third album is the first fully-realized example of the band's unique vision that combined the mechanical rhythms of early-'70s krautrock and the lush romantic flourishes of '60s soft pop in the Astrud Gilberto/Dionne Warwick tradition. To this mix the band added the relentless drones and political fixations of late-'80s British indie guitar bands such as McCarthy (Stereolab leaders Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier's first band) and the gorgeous textures of vintage analogue synthesizers. Packaged in a perfect reproduction of the sleeve of an early-'60s hi-fi test disc, complete with technical liner notes, TRANSIENT RANDOM-NOISE BURSTS WITH ANNOUNCEMENTS follows one wonderful track with another, culminating in the astonishing 18-minute "Jenny Ondioline," an obsessive explorations of all the sonic and melodic possibilities of one chord, overlaid with creamy Beach Boys-style harmonies and Sadier's melodic trill. The song, like the rest of the album, is a definitive moment in '90s indiepop.
Editorial Reviews
Ranked #24 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (03/01/1994)
Ranked #15 on Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993.
Melody Maker (01/01/1994)
...With TRANSIENT RANDOM NOISE, the 'groop' moves from Hanna Barbera spaceland straight to 2001 and beyond....[This album] has a mandate to wreak aural havoc...
Spin (10/01/1993)
Ranked #24 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.Melody Maker (1/1/94, p.76) - Ranked #15 on Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993.Spin (10/93, p.100) - ...With TRANSIENT RANDOM NOISE, the 'groop' moves from Hanna Barbera spaceland straight to 2001 and beyond....[This album] has a mandate to wreak aural havoc...
Village Voice (03/01/1994)
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