Stereolab

Stereolab at Rescue Rooms

The last time Stereolab played the Concorde2 travel issues meant they were just arriving at the venue as the support band came on. There are no such issues tonight, and they look relaxed as they take to the stage.

Stereolab at Concorde 2, Brighton

Stereolab have never been a band for labels. Authors, promoters, and musicians alike have all tried to accurately pinpoint the signature Stereolab sound, each wrestling with the phenomenal atmospheric range of the musicians until inevitably resigning to their playfully borderless reality.

You have to feel some sympathy for their band members, who have the air of modest muso nerds with no hunger for the limelight.

The penultimate Zoo Twilight show of 2020 saw one of the Ninetie's biggest experimental groups, Stereolab, head back to Melbourne, ten years after the group last toured. The group were joined by Mildlife, a Melbourne group whose lo-fi dream electronica kept the crowd pulsing early before the main event.

Stereolab are back with a vengeance.