The Experimental Audacity of Stereolab's Dots And Loops Was Too Much For Pop Music To Handle — MIDRANGE
The early 90s were dubbed- briefly and erroneously, but with a misplaced sense of certitude- as the end of history. With the fall of the Soviet Union and the colonial wars re-litigating the ghosts of the last century seemingly concluded, many professional think-tank loiterers were convinced all of the ideological struggles that animated the world’s conflicts were over. Things would henceforth just be normal and blissfully benign. This was of course an arrogant and ignorant mixture of homeostatic and Anglo-normative thinking on the part of western leaders. Conflict raged across Eastern Europe, South America, and the Middle East throughout the decade and after. The rise of religious terrorism of the early 2000s was just around the corner, and that would soon give way to our modern, more secular and domestic varieties. Furthermore social and cultural issues ranging from institutional racism, to poverty, to minority rights were further inflamed and exacerbated. To say that we had reached t
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