Stereolab Confirms 1st New Album In 15 Years

Instant Holograms On Metal Film, featuring the single “Aerial Troubles,” arrives on May 23.

By Andy Kahn Apr 8, 2025 8:50 am PDT

Stereolab will issue their first album in 15 years, Instant Holograms On Metal Film, on May 23 through their Duophonic UHF Disks label and Warp Records. The band previewed the album with the release of the single, “Aerial Troubles.”

Stereolab’s primary members Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane wrote the 13 new songs making up the Instant Holograms On Metal Film tracklist. The follow-up to Stereolab’s 2010 album, Not Music, was recorded by Sadier and Gane with current touring members of the band, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz.

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Others contributing to Instant Holograms On Metal Film include Cooper Crain and Rob Frye of Bitchin Bajas, Ben LaMar Gay, Holger Zapf, Ric Elsworth, Marie Merlet and Molly Hansen Read. Crain engineered the sessions held at Press Play in London.

Stereolab will spend May through November touring across Europe and North America. Watch the official music video for the new Stereolab single, “Aerial Troubles,” below:

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Instant Holograms On Metal Film Tracklist

  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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