Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements

Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements is the second studio album by English-French avant-pop band Stereolab. It was released on 24 August 1993 in the United States by Elektra Records[13] and on 6 September 1993 in the United Kingdom by Duophonic Records.

Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
Studio album by Stereolab
Released	24 August 1993 (1993-08-24)
Recorded	May 1993
Studio	Blackwing Studios (London)
Genre	Indie pop[1] krautrock[2] post-rock[3]
Length	62:11
Label	Duophonic Elektra
Producer	Phil Wright
Stereolab chronology
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (1993) Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (1993) Crumb Duck (1993)
Stereolab studio album chronology
Peng! (1992) Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (1993) Mars Audiac Quintet (1994)
Singles from Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
"Jenny Ondioline" Released: 27 December 1993 (EP)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Chicago Tribune	[4]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[5]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[6]
Mojo	[7]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[8]
Q	[9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[10]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	9/10[11]
Uncut	8/10[12]

The majority of the first 1,500 vinyl copies were destroyed due to bad pressing quality.[14] The third track "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" was re-recorded because the song initially had a George Harrison sample the band was unable to receive permission to use.[14] The end of the last track, "Lock-Groove Lullaby", extends into a lock groove repeating a phrase sampled from Perrey and Kingsley's "The Savers" on their album Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Spotlight on the Moog.

The LP's sleeve design and liner notes were adapted from a hi-fi test record issued by Hi-Fi Sound magazine in 1969;[15] the record itself is sampled in the track "Jenny Ondioline".[16]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tone Burst"	5:35
2.	"Our Trinitone Blast"	3:47
3.	"Pack Yr Romantic Mind"	5:06
4.	"I'm Going Out of My Way"	3:25
5.	"Golden Ball"	6:52
6.	"Pause"	5:23
7.	"Jenny Ondioline"	18:08
8.	"Analogue Rock"	4:13
9.	"Crest"	6:04
10.	"Lock-Groove Lullaby"	3:38
Total length:		62:11

Sample credits[16]

• "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" embodies portions of "Strangers in the Night", written by Bert Kaempfert (misspelled "Kaempfort" in the liner notes), Charles Singleton, and Eddie Snyder.
• "I'm Going Out of My Way" embodies portions of "One Note Samba", written by A. Jobim, J. Hendricks, and N. Mendonça (misspelled "Mendoca" in the liner notes).
• "Jenny Ondioline" contains samples from "Channel Recognition Phasing & Balance", used courtesy of Haymarket Publishing.
• "Lock-Groove Lullaby" embodies portions of "The Savers", written by Jean Marcel Leroy and Gershon Kingsley.

Personnel

Credits for Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements adapted from album liner notes.[16]

Stereolab

• Lætitia Sadier – vocals, guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesiser, tambourine
• Tim Gane – guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesiser, percussion
• Duncan Brown – guitar, bass, background vocals
• Mary Hansen – vocals, guitar, tambourine
• Sean O'Hagan – guitar, Vox and Farfisa organs
• Andy Ramsay – bouzouki, Vox organ, percussion

Production

• Stereolab (as "The Groop") – mixing
• Phil Wright – production, engineering, mixing

Charts

Chart (1993–2019)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)[17]	62
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[18]	96

References

1. Wisgard, Alex (15 November 2010). "Stereolab – Not Music". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
2. Phares, Heather. "Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements – Stereolab". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
3. Ham, Robert (19 December 2016). "The 50 Best Post-Rock Albums". Paste. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
4. Kot, Greg (24 October 1993). "Stereolab: Transient Random-NoiseBursts With Announcements (Elektra)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
5. Christgau, Robert (2000). "Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
6. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Stereolab". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
7. Mulvey, John (June 2019). "Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements". Mojo. No. 307. p. 105.
8. Livingstone, Josephine (18 July 2019). "Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements". Pitchfork. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
9. Segal, Victoria (June 2019). "Back to the Retrofuture". Q. No. 398. pp. 118–19.
10. Sarig, Roni (2004). "Stereolab". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 779–81. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
11. Strauss, Neil (1995). "Stereolab". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 375–76. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
12. Dale, Jon (November 2018). "Golden 'Lab". Uncut. No. 258. p. 40.
13. "Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (CD – Elektra #61536-2) – Stereolab". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
14. "Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements". Stereolab.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
15. Foster, John (31 July 2019). "The evolution of Stereolab's analogue-inspired record sleeves". The Vinyl Factory. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
16. Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (liner notes). Stereolab. Duophonic Records. 1993. D-UHF-CD02.CS1 maint: others (link)
17. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
18. "Stereolab Chart History (Top Album Sales)". Billboard. Retrieved 1 June 2020.

External links

• Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements at official Stereolab website
• Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements at Discogs (list of releases)
• Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements at MusicBrainz (list of releases)