Instant Holograms On Metal Film is out May 23rd co-released by the band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records.
After the album was teased via 7″ mailed out to select fans and a huge worldwide tour (no Dublin date as yet), Stereolab are back.
A new single ‘Aerial Troubles’ is out today, along with a trailer for the album. The video for the song directed by Laurent Askienazy, features AI.
The album features thirteen songs written by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane; performed by Laetitia, Tim, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz, who comprise the current touring line-up of the band.
The album also features guest contributions by Cooper Crain and Rob Frye (Bitchin Bajas), Ben LaMar Gay (International Anthem), Ric Elsworth, Holger Zapf (Cavern Of Anti-Matter), Marie Merlet and Molly Hansen Read.
Instant Holograms On Metal Film will be available on double vinyl LP in standard and colour variants, as well as compact disc and digital formats. Pre-order.
Last week, some fans of the band received a package stamped “unsolicited Stereolab material”. Inside was a 7” single containing ‘Aerial Troubles’ on one side, an instrumental version on the flip, with a cryptic wordsearch insert. At the same time, posters with the band’s name appeared in a number of major cities with the same word grid printed on. Over the past few days, several attempts have been made to solve the wordsearch, with much online speculation about how the words go together, and whether the single did indeed contain new music, or something uncovered from the band’s archives.
In lieu of a description of the music, the band are inviting fans, detractors, and journalists alike to provide their own adjectives:
Over the past few days, there has been a slow reveal of the album cover art on the Lab Report sign up page of the band’s website, with different layers gradually appearing. The 7” started landing with people on 2nd April 2025, sixteen years to the day after the groop announced they were going on indefinite hiatus. In 2019 the band released expanded and remastered editions of seven of their studio albums, coinciding with Stereolab playing live for the first time in nine years. They have continued to tour sporadically since then, and have augmented their catalogue further with the release of the compilations Electrically Possessed [Switched On Vol 4] in 2021 and Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Vol 5] in 2022.
Instant Holograms On Metal Film
Artwork & Tracklist:
- Mystical Plosives
- Aerial Troubles
- Melodie Is A Wound
- Immortal Hands
- Vermona F Transistor
- Le Coeur Et La Force
- Electrified Teenybop!
- Transmuted Matter
- Esemplastic Creeping Eruption
- If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt. 1
- Flashes From Everywhere
- Colour Television
- If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt. 2
Stereolab Live Dates
May 2025
24th – The Booking Hall – Dover, England
25th – Botanique [Les Nuits Botanique] – Brussels, Belgium
26th – Gloria – Köln, Germany
28th – Grunspan – Hamburg, Germany
29th – Huxleys Neue Welt – Berlin, Germany
30th – Zoom – Frankfurt, Germany
31st – Paradiso – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 2025
1st – Doornroosje – Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3rd – Stereolux – Nantes, France
4th – Le Trianon – Paris, France
5th – Barbey – Bordeaux, France
6th – Primavera Sound – Barcelona, Spain – SOLD OUT
7th – Teatro Eslava – Madrid, Spain
9th – La Belle Electrique – Grenoble, France
10th – Ferrara Sotto le Stelle [Cortile del Castello] – Ferrara, Italy
11th – Volkshaus – Zurich, Switzerland
12th – Hansa 36 – Munich, Germany
14th – Tvornica Kulture – Zagreb, Croatia
15th – A38 Ship – Budapest, Hungary – Events – A38 Ship
16th – WUK – Vienna, Austria
17th – Meet Factory – Prague, Czech Republic
19th – Manufaktur – Schorndorf, Germany
20th – Den Atelier – Luxembourg, Luxembourg
July 2025
11th – Siren Festival – Arena In The Fiera – Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
September 2025
13th – Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TN
14th – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
16th – Miami Beach Bandshell – Miami, FL
18th – Civic Theatre – New Orleans, LA
19th – Georgia Theatre – Athens, GA
20th – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC
21st – Haw River Ballroom – Saxapahaw, NC – SOLD OUT
23rd – The Howard Theatre – Washington, DC
24th – Union Transfer – Philadelphia. PA – SOLD OUT
26th – Royale – Boston, MA
27th – State Theatre – Portland, ME
October 2025
1st – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY – SOLD OUT
2nd – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY
3rd – Higher Ground – Burlington, VT – SOLD OUT
4th – Théâtre Beanfield – Montreal, QC – SOLD OUT
6th – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON – SOLD OUT
7th – Asbury Hall – Buffalo, NY
8th – Globe Iron – Cleveland, OH
9th – Metro – Chicago, IL – SOLD OUT
10th – Metro – Chicago, IL – SOLD OUT
11th – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
12th – Hancher Auditorium at the Englert Theatre – Iowa City, IA
14th – Gothic Theatre – Denver, CO
17th – Vogue Theatre – Vancouver, BC
18th – Neptune Theatre – Seattle, WA – SOLD OUT
19th – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
21st – The Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA – SOLD OUT
22nd – The Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA
24th – Rio Theatre – Santa Cruz, CA – SOLD OUT
25th – The Bellwether – Los Angeles, CA – SOLD OUT
26th – The Bellwether – Los Angeles, CA – SOLD OUT
28th – Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA
30th – Ballroom Marfa – Marfa, TX – SOLD OUT
31st – TBC – Austin, TX
November 2025
1st – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
2nd – Granada Theatre – Dallas, TX
4th – Complejo Art Media – Buenos Aires, Argentina
7th/8th – Fauna Primavera – Santiago, Chile
9th – Balaclava Fest – São Paulo, Brazil
12th – Foro Indie Rocks! – Mexico City, Mexico – SOLD OUT
13th – Foro Indie Rock! – Mexico City, Mexico
December 2025
5th – Brighton Dome Corn Exchange – Brighton, England
6th – Royal Festival Hall – London, England – SOLD OUT
8th – SWG3 Galvanisers – Glasgow, Scotland
9th – Project House – Leeds, England
11th – O2 Ritz – Manchester, England
12th – Wulfrun Hall – Wolverhampton, England
13th – O2 Academy – Oxford, England
14th – Brixton Electric – London, England
