Cybele's Reverie Explained

Cybele's Reverie
Type:ep
Artist:Stereolab
Cover:CybelesReverie.jpg
Released:19 February 1996
Studio:Idful, Chicago, Illinois
Length:20:36
Language:French
Label:Duophonic
Prev Title:Refried Ectoplasm: Switched on, Vol. 2
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Next Year:1996

Cybele's Reverie is an EP by English-French rock band Stereolab, released on 19 February 1996 by Duophonic Records. Its title track serves as the lead single from their fourth studio album Emperor Tomato Ketchup. The four-track EP is the only one by Stereolab on which none of the songs are in English: the title track, "Brigitte", and "Young Lungs" are in French, and "Les Yper-Yper Sound" is an instrumental.

The title track was voted number eleven on John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1996.

All four of its tracks were re-released on the Oscillons from the Anti-Sun compilation.

Composition

"Cybele's Reverie" itself is an early fade of the album version, and "Les Yper-Yper Sound" is a radically different arrangement of the album track "Les Yper-Sound". "Brigitte" pays tribute to Brigitte Fontaine, whom the band would later collaborate with on the single "Caliméro".

Track listing

All tracks by Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier

  1. "Cybele's Reverie" – 2:56
  2. "Les Yper-Yper Sound" – 5:19
  3. "Brigitte" – 5:45
  4. "Young Lungs" – 6:36

Personnel

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