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Out from the lab and onto your stereo this summer, Chemical Chords is the first proper LP from Stereolab since 2004's Margerine Eclipse (not counting the EP collection Fab Four Suture).

The disc is due worldwide August 18 and in the U.S. August 19 from 4AD. Featuring 13 songs by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane and one solo Gane composition, the record also sports string and brass arrangements from former member/current High Llama Sean O'Hagan.

Stereolab have plans to tout the release of Chemical Chords with a few festival appearances this summer. If you can't wait, there's always the recently released (and very good) Monstre Cosmic from Sadier's Monade project.

Chemical Chords:

01 Neon Beanbag
02 Three Women
03 One Finger Symphony
04 Chemical Chords
05 The Ecstatic Static
06 Valley Hi!
07 Silver Sands
08 Pop Molecule (Molecular Pop 1)
09 Self Portrait with "electric brain"
10 Nous Vous Demandons Pardon
11 Cellulose Sunshine
12 Fractal Dream Of A Thing
13 Daisy Click Clack
14 Vortical Phonotheque

Stereolab:

06-15 Athens, Greece - Synch Festival
07-19 Tonsberg, Norway - Slottsfjell Festival