Stereolab shares new single "Melodie Is A Wound"

STEREOLAB SHARES NEW SINGLE “MELODIE IS A WOUND” ACCOMPANIED BY NEW CRYPTIC WORDSEARCH BY ALAN CONNOR INSTANT HOLOGRAMS ON METAL FILM DUE MAY 23RD VIA DUOPHONIC UHF DISKS / WARP RECORDS WORLD TOUR LAUNCHING MAY 25TH  NEW UK, US SHOWS ADDED

Photo credit Joe Dilworth Instant Holograms on Metal Film PRE-SAVE/ORDER: https://stereolab.co.uk/   “Melodie Is A Wound”  LISTEN: https://stereolab.ffm.to/melodie WATCH: https://youtu.be/Nndpg90P2O8  TICKETS:  https://warp.net/stereolab-2025  (April 29th, 2025) - Today, Stereolab shares “Melodie Is A Wound,” the follow-up single to the album’s announcement earlier this month, accompanied by an edited version. Following the wordsearch and fill-in-the-blanks puzzles from the last release, “Melodie Is A Wound” arrives alongside a Stereolab-themed cryptic crossword puzzle. The crossword has been compiled by Alan Connor, who serves as the crossword editor for The Guardian and sets the cryptic crossword for The Observer, has been question editor for TV shows House Of Games and Only Connect, and is the author of books including 188 Words For Rain. Stereolab’s forthcoming album, Instant Holograms On Metal Film, will be available on May 23rd, co-released by the band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks, and Warp Records. Their first new record in fifteen years, Instant Holograms On Metal Film features 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. Instant Holograms On Metal Film will be available on double vinyl LP in standard and colour variants, as well as compact disc and digital formats. Pre-order/save it here. Stereolab are touring extensively this year throughout Europe, North America and the UK, with select shows in South America, many of which are already sold out.  “Melodie Is A Wound” single artwork

Alan is also a Stereolab fan, and comments:  “Writing this puzzle I felt an unfamiliar sensation, at first in my knees. A recovered memory of Stereolab in a venue which sent the groop's noise bursts - bass? sub-bass? whatever might be under that? - directly inside each of us in the crowd, reshaping us in wonderful ways. No one else has done that, but then no one else has done the alchemic things Stereolab has done. Happily for me, this is a band fond of titles which read just like fragments of cryptic clues. So long, that is, as your brain has been suitably warped by puzzles. Happily, mine has been warped this way - as well as my body by Stereolab. Thank you for the warping, thank you Warp and thank you Stereolab.  By the way, I sincerely believe that anyone in public life would do public life better if they listened to Emperor Tomato Ketchup's “Tomorrow Is Already Here” a few times. What was then the future has borne out that one plenty.” Previously, some 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, with 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 wordsearch, with much online speculation about how the words go together, and whether the single did indeed contain new music, or something uncovered from the band’s archives. And in lieu of a description of the music, the band are inviting fans, detractors, and journalists alike to provide their own adjectives on a fill-in-the-blanks sheet.

Instant Holograms On Metal Film Wordsearch Instant Holograms On Metal Film Fill-in-the-Blank Puzzle The album art was first slowly revealed 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 group announced they were going on indefinite hiatus. In 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. “Aerial Troubles” single art Pre-save Instant Holograms On Metal Film, listen and watch “Melodie Is A Wound” above, check out the tour dates, and find full album details below.  Instant Holograms On Metal Film album art  Stereolab  Instant Holograms On Metal Film Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp Records  May 23, 2025  1. Mystical Plosives 2. Aerial Troubles 3. Melodie Is A Wound 4. Immortal Hands 5. Vermona F Transistor 6. Le Coeur Et La Force 7. Electrified Teenybop! 8. Transmuted Matter 9. 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

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Stereolab UK tour poster  Upcoming Live Dates  Europe Dates + = Astrobal  * = TBC 5/24 - Dover, UK @ The Booking Hall * SOLD OUT 5/25 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique Les Nuits Botanique  5/26 - Köln, DE @ Gloria 5/28 - Hamburg, DE @ Grunspan 5/29 - Berlin, DE @ Huxley Neue Welt  5/30 - Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom  5/31 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso  6/1 -  Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje 6/3 - Nantes, FR @ Stereolux + 6/4 - Paris, FR @ Le Trianon + SOLD OUT 6/5 - Bordeaux, FR @ Barbey + 6/6 - Barcelona, ESP @ Primavera Sound + SOLD OUT 6/7 - Madrid, ESP @ Teatro Eslava + 6/9 - Grenoble, FR @ La Belle Electrique + 6/10 - Ferrara, IT @ Ferrara Sotto le Stelle  6/11 -  Zurich, CH @ Volkshaus + 6/12 - Munich, DE @ Hansa 36 + 6/14 - Zagreb, CR @ Tvornica Kulture + 6/15 - Budapest, HU @ A38 Ship + 6/16 - Vienna, AU @ WUK + 6/17 - Prague, CZ @ Meet Factory + 6/19 - Schorndorf, DE - Manufaktur + 6/20 - Luxembourg, LU @ Den Atelier + 7/11 - Cagliari, SD, IT @ Siren Festival   North American Dates  + = Memorials  @ = Dorothea Paas & Bitchin’ Bajas / Natural Information Society  * = Bitchin’ Bajas  ^ = TBC 9/13 - Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl + 9/14 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse + 9/16 - Miami, FL @ Miami Beach Bandshell + 9/18 - New Orleans, LA @ The Civic Theatre + 9/19 - Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre + 9/20 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel + 9/21 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom SOLD OUT + 9/23 - Washington, D.C. @ The Howard Theatre + 9/24 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer SOLD OUT + 9/26 - Boston, MA @ Royale + 9/27 - Portland, ME @ State Theatre + 10/1 - Brooklyn, NY @  Brooklyn Steel SOLD OUT + 10/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel @ 10/3 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground SOLD OUT @ 10/4 - Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield SOLD OUT @ 10/6 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall SOLD OUT @ 10/7 - Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall @ 10/8 - Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron @ 10/9 - Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT @ 10/10 - Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT  10/11 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue @ 10/12 - Iowa City, IA @ Hancher Auditorium at the Englert Theatre @ 10/14 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre @ 10/17 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre * 10/18 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre SOLD OUT * 10/19 - Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom* 10/21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom SOLD OUT * 10/22 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom ^ 10/24 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre SOLD OUT * 10/25 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether SOLD OUT * 10/26 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether SOLD OUT ^ 10/28 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park * 10/30 - Marfa, TX @ The Capri SOLD OUT * 10/31 - Austin, TX @ TBC 11/1 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall * 11/2 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre * Latin American Dates  11/4 - Buenos Aires, ARG @ Complejo Art Media  11/7 - Santiago, CHI @ Fauna Primaversa  11/9 - São Paulo, BRA @ Balaclava Festival  11/12 - Mexico City, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks! SOLD OUT  11/13 - Mexico City, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks!  UK Dates  12/5 - Brighton, UK @ Corn Exchange  12/6 - London, UK @ Royal Festival Hall SOLD OUT  12/8 - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3  12/9 - Leeds, UK @ Project House  12/11 - Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz  12/12 - Wolverhampton, UK @ University of Wolverhampton at the Wulfrun Hall  12/13 - Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy  12/14 - London, UK @ Brixton Electric

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