Stereolab “Peng!” LP

2018 Remaster!

Peng! is the debut studio album by English-French band Stereolab.[11] It was released on 26 May 1992 by Too Pure in the United Kingdom. The album’s title (a German onomatopoeia for a loud pop or bang) and cover art are derived from a comic strip named “Der tdliche Finger” that appeared in a 1970 issue of Hotcha, a Swiss underground newspaper.

Stereolab could never have imagined how experimental, or influential, they would become. When Ltitia Sadier joined her then-boyfriend Tim Gane in his British jangle-pop band McCarthy, the two melted insoluble genres, like 1950s jazz and 1970s krautrock, into a singular style: an experiment with 1960s pop harmonies, teethy guitars, and the borderless world of analog electronics. The songs are charming, straightforward, and just lo-fi enough to feel like gems waiting to be polished. Over this indie-rock foundation stretches an unexpected shoegaze veneer.