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Mars Audiac Quintet

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Released
  
8 August 1994 (UK)

Length
  
66:57

Artist
  
Stereolab

Label
  
Elektra Records

Recorded
  
1994

Mars Audiac Quintet (1994)
  
Wow and Flutter (1994)

Release date
  
9 August 1994

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Genres
  
Post-rock, Experimental rock

Similar
  
Stereolab albums, Post-rock albums

Stereolab mars audiac quintet


Mars Audiac Quintet is an album by the band Stereolab, released in August 1994. Initial releases of the CD came with bonus two-track disk, the double vinyl album came with a 7". During the recording of the album, guitarist Sean O'Hagan left as a full-time member to form his own group, while keyboardist Katharine Gifford was added.

Contents

"International Colouring Contest" is a tribute to Lucia Pamela, and samples her voice in the intro.

Pitchfork Media ranked it the 78th best album of the 1990s.

Stereolab three dee melodie


Track listing

All songs written by Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, unless otherwise noted.

The bonus disc contained the songs "Ulan Bator" and "Klang Tone", later re-released on Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3.

Personnel

  • Lætitia Sadier – vocals, guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, tambourine
  • Tim Gane – guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, percussion
  • Sean O'Hagan – guitar, Vox & Farfisa organs
  • Andy Ramsay – drums
  • Mary Hansen – vocals, guitar, tambourine
  • Duncan Brown – guitar, bass, background vocals
  • Katharine Gifford – keyboards
  • Songs

    1Three-Dee Melodie5:03
    2Wow & Flutter3:09
    3Transona Five5:32

    References

    Mars Audiac Quintet Wikipedia