Stereo Total - Paris-Berlin
Reviewed by vanwickel
You wouldn't expect one of the year's most charmingly amateurish and utterly un-self-conscious records to be from a duo based in Berlin—a town not historically known for its lightheartedness. Yet, Stereo-Total, a band comprised of French-born Fran'oise Cactus and German-born Brezel G'ring, makes kooky little pop gems that sounds like they were created exclusively for this duo's own amusement. That said, Stereo Total is not avant-garde, or techno or riddled with existential angst. They are not concerned with breaking any new ground. They just make intrinsically wholesome, nearly dada, little pop ditties that are impossible to dislike. [www.stereototal.de]