The discography of Stereolab, an English-French rock band, comprises thirteen studio albums, seven compilation albums, fifteen extended plays, sixteen singles, and twenty-three rarities compilations. Release dates listed are earliest worldwide.
Albums
Studio albums
Title Album details Peak chart positions UK IRL NOR US USHeat. USIndie Peng! Released: 26 May 1992 Label: Too Pure Format: LP, CD, cassette — — — — — — Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements Released: 10 August 1993 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, cassette 62 — — — — — Mars Audiac Quintet Released: 8 August 1994 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, cassette 16 — — — — — Emperor Tomato Ketchup Released: 11 March 1996 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, cassette 27 — — — 27 — Dots and Loops Released: 22 September 1997 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, cassette 19 — 38 111 2 — Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night Released: 21 September 1999 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD 92 — — 154 8 — Sound-Dust Released: 28 August 2001 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD 117 — — 178 11 — Margerine Eclipse Released: 27 January 2004 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD 108 — — 174 6 — Chemical Chords Released: 18 August 2008 Label: Duophonic, 4AD Format: LP, CD, digital download 102 69 — 170 7 24 Not Music Released: 16 November 2010 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD — — — — 20 — Instant Holograms on Metal Film Released: 23 May 2025 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, digital download, streaming 29 — — — — —
Mini-LPs Title Album details Peakchartpositions UK The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" Released: 22 March 1993 Label: Too Pure, American Format: LP, CD — Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center Released: 17 April 1995 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD 59 The First of the Microbe Hunters Released: 16 May 2000 Label: Duophonic, Elektra Format: LP, CD —
Compilations Title Album details Peakchartpositions UK USHeat. USIndie Switched On Released: October 1992Slumberland Records: Stereolab - Switched On Label: Too Pure, Slumberland Format: LP, CD — — — Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2) Released: July 1995 Label: Duophonic, Drag City Format: LP, CD, cassette 30 — — Aluminum Tunes (Switched On Volume 3) Released: 20 October 1998 Label: Duophonic, Drag City Format: LP, CD 109 — — ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions Released: 8 October 2002 Label: Strange Fruit, Koch Format: CD — — — Oscillons from the Anti-Sun Released: 25 April 2005 Label: Duophonic, Too Pure Format: CD — 45 39 Fab Four Suture Released: 6 March 2006 Label: Duophonic, Too Pure Format: LP, CD 177 28 35 Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology Released: 29 August 2006 Label: Duophonic, Elektra Format: LP, CD — — — Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4) Released: 26 February 2021 Label: Duophonic, Warp Format: LP, CD — — — Pulse of the Early Brain (Switched On Volume 5) Released: 2 September 2022 Label: Duophonic, Warp Format: LP, CD 66 — —
Singles and EPs +List of singles, with selected chart positionsTitleYearPeakAlbumUKSuper 451991— rowspan="10" Stunning Debut Album—"Super-Electric"—"Low Fi"1992—"The Light That Will Cease to Fail"—"Harmonium/Farfisa"—"John Cage Bubblegum"1993—"Lo Boob Oscillator"—"French Disko"—"Crumb Duck" (with Nurse with Wound)—"Jenny Ondioline" / "French Disko"75Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements"Ping Pong"199445Mars Audiac Quintet"Wow and Flutter"70"Cybele's Reverie"199662Emperor Tomato Ketchup"Fluorescences"78 "Metronomic Underground"—Emperor Tomato Ketchup"Miss Modular" 199760Dots and LoopsFires (with Ui, credited to Uilab) 1998— rowspan="3" "Calimero" (with Brigitte Fontaine)1999153"Simple Headphone Mind" (with Nurse with Wound)—"The Free Design"157Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky NightInstant 0 in the Universe2003— rowspan="8" "Interlock"2005132"Kyberneticka Babicka"133"Plastic Mile"135"Excursions into Oh A-Oh"2006152"Eye of the Volcano"155"Whisper Pitch"162"Explosante Fixe"2008—"Three Women"—Chemical Chords"Aerial Troubles"2025—Instant Holograms on Metal Film"Melodie Is a Wound"—"Transmuted Matter"—"Fed Up with Your Job?" / "Constant and Uniform Movement Unknown"— rowspan="2" "Cloud Land" / "Flashes in the Afternoon" 2026—"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Music videos Title Year Director(s) Ref. "We're Not Adult Orientated" 1993 "Jenny Ondioline" Michael Clifford "Wow and Flutter" 1994 Nick Abrahams and Mikey Tomkins "Ping Pong" "Cybele's Reverie" 1996 "The Noise of the Carpet" "Miss Modular" 1997 "The Free Design" 1999
Rarities YearMonthDayTitleLabel (UK)Label (US)FormatNotes 1992 - - Ronco Symphony Spacewatch - Flexidisc single split (w/ Submariner) 1993 December 23 French Disko Duophonic - 7"/CD single 1500 7", 1000 CD 1993 - - High Expectations Tea Time Fanzine - Flexidisc single split (w/ Guitare Boy), came with issue #6 1993 - - Shimmies in Super Eight Duophonic - 7" EP multi-split, 800 copies 1993 - - Mountain - Teenbeat 7" single split (w/ Unrest), 2000 copies 1994 - - I'm Going Out Of My Way - Radiopaque 7" single split (w/ Scrawl), 1400 copies 1995 - - The Long Hair of Death Duophonic - 7" single split (w/ Yo La Tengo), 3000 copies 1995 - - The Eclipse Wurlitzer Jukebox - Flexidisc single split (w/ Cat's Miaow), 1000 copies 1996 - - Laminations Elektra - CD EP promo 1996 - - Noises - - - promo 1996 - - Percolations Uberschall - 7" single split (w/ Foetus and Faust), 2000 copies 1996 - - You Used To Call Me Sadness Lissy's - 7" single split (w/ Fuxa), 1900 copies 1996 - - Speedy Car Duophonic - 7" single split (w/ Tortoise), 3000 copies 1997 - - Cadriopo Groovy Moogy Recordings - 7" single split (w/ Fugu) 1997 - - The Noise Of Carpet Elektra - CD EP promo 1997 - - Miss Modular Remix Elektra - 12" EP 2000 copies 1997 - - Iron Man Duophonic - 7" single 3,700 copies 1998 - - Refractions in the Plastic Pulse Duophonic - 12" single two-track remix 1998 - - Stereolab Sampler East West Japan - CD promo Japanese only compilation 1998 - - Symbolic Logic Of Now! Luke Warm Music - 7" single split (w/ Soi-Disant) 1999 April - The In Sound Independent Project Records - 7" single 2500 copies 1999 - - The Underground Is Coming Duophonic - 7" EP2001 - - Free Witch And No Bra Queen Duophonic - 7" single 2,000 copies 2001 - -"Rose, My Rocket-Brain" Duophonic - 7" single, mini CD 500 copies 2006 - -"Solar Throw-Away / Jump Drive Shut-Out" Duophonic - 7" single 3,600 copies 2008 - -"Spool Of Collusion " 4AD - 7" single 5000 copies, free with Chemical Chords 2025 - -"Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon " Duophonic - 7" single European/US tour single
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