More than fifteen years into their career, Stereolab have released their first true pop album, Chemical Chords, which all but throws out the art house once and for all and high-tails it for the house party. The London band are textbook example of 90s critical darlings who have evaded huge mainstream success but still managed to spawn millions of (similarly Moog-endowed) pretenders, most of whom lack the whimsy and experimental chops that have marked the band as happily unconventional since their first appearance in 1991 with the Super 45 EP. more ›