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Fab Four Suture
by Stereolab


9.3

based on 13 reviews
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All 12 songs on the band's first album in two years have been released as singles.

LABEL:	Too Pure / Beggars Banquet
RELEASE DATE:	07 March 2006
DISCS:	1 disc
GENRE(S):	Indie, Rock

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Stereolab is arguably better now than it's ever been.

musicOMH.com

Quite a varied collection.

All Music Guide

Even more than Margerine Eclipse, Fab Four Suture sounds like Stereolab has adapted -- if not fully healed -- from the loss of Mary Hansen.

Lost At Sea

Fab Four Suture is a solid, satisfying listen front to back.

Entertainment Weekly

Not mind-blowing, but still a worthy trip. [10 Mar 2006, p.69]

BBC collective

This anthology of new and previously released 7” singles is inevitably somewhat dishevelled as an album, but then this extraordinary band has always worked best in bite-size.

PopMatters

Like all their best recordings, it sounds both like a “typical Stereolab album” and like nothing they’ve done before.

NOW Magazine

It appears that the recording regime involved in focusing on a series of 7-inch singles rather than a new album has brought back some of the old creative spark.

Drawer B

It is a little more scattered than the last few proper Stereolab albums in terms of musical threads, but the urbane electro-funk of “Interlock” as well as the jittery disco pomp of “Eye of the Volcano” prove that Stereolab is still tweaking the formula with one foot in Esquivel’s grave and the other several light years away.

Pitchfork

There is nothing intrinsically bad about it of course, but the album is consumed by the already menacingly "not intrinsically bad"-ness of their canon.

Slant Magazine

Simultaneously a structural free-for-all and a glossy collection of diverse material.

Playlouder

The lack of a linear structure results in the individual songs banging against each other logjam-style, with the unfortunate effect that 'Fab Four Suture' begins to grate.

Rolling Stone

Even longtime fans will have to wonder what the point is.

The average user rating for this album is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
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Leonardo F gave it a9:
less complex than their previous releases, the groop is having more fun with their music. they're rocking more - the songs have funky basslines, danceable beats and great guitar work by tim gane. my favorite tracks are 'eye of the volcano', 'get a shot of the refrigerator' and 'excursions into the oh a-oh'.

Louis d gave it a9:
Better than Margarine Eclipse; a complete return to form. The Groop has a harder edge on some tracks. The Rolling Stone hates it should convince the doubters.

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Fab Four Suture by Stereolab

Fab Four Suture
by Stereolab