After nine studio albums, the Anglo-French unit Stereolab has become very comfortable in its sound, sinking into a beanbag chair of Laetitia Sadier’s “ba-da-ba’s,” Farfisa organ drones, wonderfully serpentine bass lines and krautrock/bossa nova/waltz rhythms. One would think that Margerine Eclipse, the first album released since singer-keyboardist Mary Hansen’s death…
