Stereolab Announce First New Album in Fifteen Years

Instant Holograms On Metal Film, the first new album from Stereolab in 15 years will be released May 23 2025, via Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp Records. Pre-order the album HERE.

Listen to Aerial Troubles, the first single shared from the album HERE.

Featuring thirteen songs written by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane; performed by Laetitia, Tim, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz, who comprise the current touring line-up of the band, the album also features guest contributions by Cooper Crain and Rob Frye (Bitchin Bajas), Ben LaMar Gay (International Anthem), Ric Elsworth, Holger Zapf (Cavern Of Anti-Matter), Marie Merlet and Molly Hansen Read.

Last week, fans of the band received a package stamped ”unsolicited Stereolab material.” Inside was a 7” single containing Aerial Troubles on one side, an instrumental version on the flip, and a cryptic wordsearch insert. At the same time, posters with the band’s name appeared in a number of major cities with the same word grid printed on. Over the past few days, several attempts have been made to solve the word search, with much online speculation about how the words go together, whether the single did indeed contain new music, or something uncovered from the band’s archives.

Over the past few days, there has been a slow reveal of the album cover art on the Lab Report sign-up page of the band’s website, with different layers gradually appearing. The 7” started landing with people on 2nd April 2025, sixteen years to the day after the groop announced they were going on indefinite hiatus.
AAIn 2019, the band released expanded and remastered editions of seven of their studio albums, coinciding with Stereolab playing live for the first time in nine years.

They have continued to tour sporadically since then, and have augmented their catalogue further with the release of the compilations Electrically Possessed [Switched On Vol 4] in 2021, and Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Vol 5] in 2022.

Check out the video for Aerial Troubles below – 

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Instant Holograms On Metal Film Tracklist:
01. Mystical Plosives
02. Aerial Troubles
03. Melodie Is A Wound
04. Immortal Hands
05. Vermona F Transistor
06. Le Coeur Et La Force
07. Electrified Teenybop!
08. Transmuted Matter
09. Esemplastic Creeping Eruption
10. If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt.1
11. Flashes From Everywhere
12. Colour Television
13. If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt.2

Stereolab are touring globally this year with UK dates in December, including newly announced dates in London at Brixton Electric on 14th December, Wolverhampton at the University of Wolverhampton at the Wulfrun Hall on 12th December, and a tour warm-up show at The Booking Hall in Dover on 24th May.