Back in 2002, I regretfully started a band called Stereo Labrador and the Funk Fries. This band consisted of me pressing a button on a TalkBoy that played a sample of a timpani and a pan flute and my black Labrador, Pauly Shore, who went back and forth on the stage on a skateboard, with a boom box Duct-taped to his back.

One show was accidentally booked as Stereolab, and let’s just say that a lot of people were pissed. The real band should have sued me. But they didn’t, and here I am today, a free man, to tell you about the anticipated release of the group’s newest album, Chemical Chords.

Chemical Chords will be released August 19 in the U.S. (August 18 outside of the U.S.) on Duophonic UHF Disks/4AD. Featuring 13 songs by Laetitia Saider and Tim Gane, the album marks the first proper release of new material since 2004’s Magerine Eclipse.

Chemical Chords tracklist:

1. Neon Beanbag 2. Three Women 3. One Finger Symphony 4. Chemical Chords 5. The Ecstatic Static 6. Valley Hi! 7. Silver Sands 8. Pop Molecule (Molecular Pop 1) 9. Self Portrait with "Electric Brain" 10. Nous Vous Demandons Pardon 11. Cellulose Sunshine 12. Fractal Dream Of A Thing 13. Daisy Click Clack