Stereolab – Margerine Eclipse (Vinyl) 1981 the best local rock album

the best local rock album in years” in his Sunday Star Times review

A selection of 21 tracks from the Dunedin band's formative years

and it always put me in awe when I heard how unrestricted they were by their set up

Ray Woolf & The Avengers – Little Things That Happen

shielding hard truths with soft tones

Stereolab – Margerine Eclipse (Vinyl) 1981 the best local rock albumStereolab's music is so consistent, and so consistently pretty, that it has become nearly criticism proof; the band do what they do so completely that it's almost a matter of accepting or rejecting their music whole instead of analyzing it. But while Stereolab's mix of '50s and '60s lounge, vintage electronic music, and Krautrock may have crossed over into easy listening indie pop a few albums ago, they still can't be dismissed easily. Margerine