Stereolab returns and more: The Contenders, Vol. 8

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Stereolab is back with its first new music in 15 years. We give it a spin on this week's show, along with the scorched rock of feeble little horse, a relentlessly catchy earworm from Yaeji and more.

Featured artists and songs:
1. Stereolab: "Aerial Troubles," from 'Instant Holograms On Metal Film'
2. Yaeji & E Wata: "Pondeggi" (single)
3. Snuggle: "Dust" (single)
4. feeble little horse: "This Is Real" (single)
5. Lyra Pramuk: "Rewild," from 'Hymnal'

Weekly reset: Street musicians on the Piazza del Duomo, Florence, Italy

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0:00.0	Hazel, you know, we had on our show last week, we had even more songs to calm the nerves.
0:05.7	And you were on the very first original episode of relaxing songs that started that whole series about a year ago.
0:11.9	I was, and I very much enjoyed doing that episode. It relaxed me quite a lot.
0:17.1	But I actually just learned this week that what you really want to do is let out a lot of pent-up rage.
0:24.2	Yes. I think I was like, you know, Robin has really been killing it with these songs Relax 2 episodes.
0:32.5	But where is the rage?
0:34.3	Well, I think this kind of speaks to some of the recurring themes that I heard in the
0:38.3	music that we're going to play on this week's episode. Even starting with this first cut that I know
0:44.6	you want to play from the band Stereo Lab, because it's got this recurring line, the numbing's not working
0:51.0	anymore? Yes, 100%. Stereo Lab is back, which is incredible to me.
0:57.3	They just announced their first new album in 15 years.
1:01.8	It's going to be called Instant Holograms on Metal Film,
1:05.2	which is such a stereo lab thing to name an album.
1:08.1	That's perfect.
1:09.0	And, yeah, the first song off of it is called Ariel Troubles.
1:25.0	The numbing is not, it is not not working anymore.
1:40.3	The numbing is not working anymore
1:48.0	I don't feel a broken anymore
1:52.0	I don't feel a broken
1:55.0	An insatiable state of an sanction
2:00.0	Soo's true A sign tragedy An insatiable state of Uncumption To lose the line
2:02.6	A sign tragic
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