On their latest LP, Stereo Total does a good job satiating fans with a full 17 tracks, though label Kill Rock Stars notes that the band wrote 40 for the album. Now, I’m not much of a Stereo Total expert, but Baby Ouh! feels a bit more experimental than what I’ve heard from the band. From the get-go, they drop in sounds that remind me of not only Stereo Total, but artists like Deerhoof and The Fiery Furnaces. And it works.

“Baby Ouh!” jumps out as an early favorite with loose percussion and wildly fun, playful synths. Not in English, the song gives off an exotic nature that the band doesn’t quite capture with their English-based tracks. The song goes on for a while in a bit of an experimental haze. There are plenty like it on the album, though there are plenty that hint of the group’s last EP, Anti Love Song. The album comes out this week on Kill Rock Stars and you can pick it up on Buy Olympia.

Above photo by Becky Ofek.

Download: “Baby Ouh!” by Stereo Total

Stereo Total (Stereo Total) joins euro sounds from France and Germany to create a style of music somewhere between Krautrock and new-wave. The duo has a string of albums released through Olympia label Kill Rock Stars and their latest EP pressed to vinyl is Anti Love Song.

It’s easy to pinpoint a favorite — the title track. Françoise Cactus’ German accent and the signature lack of Krautrock emotion as she sings And just as hard as I’d fall for you, boy / Well know you’d fall for me harder / That’s why I don’t want to love you. Add consistency in drums and a string of new-wave synth lines, and the song becomes a pillar of ecstacy.

“I Wanna Be A Mama” finds Brezel Göring taking the lead on vocals, the song delves into the influences parents indulge onto their children: I will call him Lucifer and teach him how to criticize / I’ll teach him how to live off prostitution / I will teach him how to kill / Oh yeah, I wanna be a mama.

Stereo Total excels at pointing out ridiculous things rampant in society. No topic is off-limits and that leads to some pretty clever and unique music.

Above photo by Stefanos Notopoulos.

Stereo Total: (I Hate) Everybody In The Discoteque [mp3]

Kill Rock Stars [7" Single, 2009]

1. (I Hate) Everybody In The Discotheque
2. Anti Love Song
3. I Wanna Be A Mama
4. No Tututu