Stereolab discography

The discography of Stereolab, an English-French rock band, comprises thirteen studio albums, seven compilation albums, fifteen extended plays, sixteen singles, and twenty-three rarities compilations. Release dates listed are earliest worldwide.^[1][2][3][4]

Stereolab discography
Studio albums	11
EPs	15
Compilation albums	7
Singles	16
Rarities	23

Albums

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK [5][6]	IRL [7]	NOR [8]	US [9]	US Heat. [9]	US Indie [9]
Peng!	Released: 26 May 1992 Label: Too Pure Format: LP, CD, cassette	—	—	—	—	—	—
Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements	Released: 10 August 1993 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, cassette	62	—	—	—	—	—
Mars Audiac Quintet	Released: 8 August 1994 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, cassette	16	—	—	—	—	—
Emperor Tomato Ketchup	Released: 11 March 1996 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, cassette	27	—	—	—	27	—
Dots and Loops	Released: 22 September 1997 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, cassette	19	—	38	111	2	—
Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night	Released: 21 September 1999 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD	92	—	—	154	8	—
Sound-Dust	Released: 28 August 2001 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD	117	—	—	178	11	—
Margerine Eclipse	Released: 27 January 2004 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD	108	—	—	174	6	—
Chemical Chords	Released: 18 August 2008 Label: Duophonic, 4AD Format: LP, CD, digital download	102	69	—	170	7	24
Not Music	Released: 16 November 2010 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD	—	—	—	—	20	—
Instant Holograms on Metal Film	Released: 23 May 2025 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD, digital download, streaming	29	—	—	—	—	—

Mini-LPs

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK [5]
The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"	Released: 22 March 1993 Label: Too Pure, American Format: LP, CD	—
Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center	Released: 17 April 1995 Label: Duophonic Format: LP, CD	59
The First of the Microbe Hunters	Released: 16 May 2000 Label: Duophonic, Elektra Format: LP, CD	—

Compilations

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK [5][6]	US Heat. [9]	US Indie [9]
Switched On	Released: October 1992[10] Label: Too Pure, Slumberland Format: LP, CD	—	—	—
Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2)	Released: July 1995 Label: Duophonic, Drag City Format: LP, CD, cassette	30	—	—
Aluminum Tunes (Switched On Volume 3)	Released: 20 October 1998 Label: Duophonic, Drag City Format: LP, CD	109	—	—
ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions	Released: 8 October 2002 Label: Strange Fruit, Koch Format: CD	—	—	—
Oscillons from the Anti-Sun	Released: 25 April 2005 Label: Duophonic, Too Pure Format: CD	—	45	39
Fab Four Suture	Released: 6 March 2006 Label: Duophonic, Too Pure Format: LP, CD	177	28	35
Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology	Released: 29 August 2006 Label: Duophonic, Elektra Format: LP, CD	—	—	—
Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4)	Released: 26 February 2021 Label: Duophonic, Warp Format: LP, CD	—	—	—
Pulse of the Early Brain (Switched On Volume 5)	Released: 2 September 2022 Label: Duophonic, Warp Format: LP, CD	66	—	—

Singles & EPs

List of singles, with selected chart positions

Title	Year	Peak	Album
		UK
Super 45	1991	—	Non-album single
Stunning Debut Album		—
"Super-Electric"		—
"Low Fi"	1992	—
"The Light That Will Cease to Fail"		—
"Harmonium/Farfisa"		—
"John Cage Bubblegum"	1993	—
"Lo Boob Oscilator"		—
"French Disko"		—
"Crumb Duck" (with Nurse With Wound)		—
"Jenny Ondioline" / "French Disko"		75	Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
"Ping Pong"	1994	45	Mars Audiac Quintet
"Wow and Flutter"		70
"Cybele's Reverie"	1996	62	Emperor Tomato Ketchup
"Fluorescences"		78	Non-album single
"Metronomic Underground"		—	Emperor Tomato Ketchup
"Miss Modular"	1997	60	Dots and Loops
Fires (with Ui, credited to Uilab)	1998	—	Non-album single
"Calimero" (with Brigitte Fontaine)	1999	153
"Simple Headphone Mind" (with Nurse With Wound)		—
"The Free Design"		157	Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Instant 0 in the Universe	2003	—	Non-album single
"Interlock"	2005	132
"Kyberneticka Babicka"		133
"Plastic Mile"		135
"Excursions into Oh A-Oh"	2006	152
"Eye of the Volcano"		155
"Whisper Pitch"		162
"Explosante Fixe"	2008	—
"Three Women"		—	Chemical Chords
"Aerial Troubles"	2025	—	Instant Holograms On Metal Film
"Melodie Is A Wound"		—
"Transmuted Matter"		—
"Fed Up With Your Job?" / "Constant And Unknown Movement"		—[a]	Non-album single
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Music videos

Title	Year	Director(s)	Ref.
"We're Not Adult Oriented"	1993
"Jenny Ondioline"		Michael Clifford	[12]
"Wow and Flutter"	1994	Nick Abrahams and Mikey Tomkins	[13]
"Ping Pong"			[14]
"Cybele's Reverie"	1996		[15]
"The Noise of the Carpet"			[16]
"Miss Modular"	1997		[17]
"The Free Design"	1999		[18]

Rarities

Year	Month	Day	Title	Label (UK)	Label (US)	Format	Notes
1992	-	-	Ronco Symphony	Spacewatch	-	Flexidisc single	split (w/ Submariner)
1993	December	23	French Disko	Duophonic	-	7"/CD single	1500 7", 1000 CD
1993	-	-	High Expectations	Tea Time Fanzine	-	Flexidisc single	split (w/ Guitare Boy), came with issue #6
1993	-	-	Shimmies in Super Eight	Duophonic	-	7" EP	multi-split, 800 copies
1993	-	-	Mountain	-	Teenbeat	7" single	split (w/ Unrest), 2000 copies
1994	-	-	I'm Going Out Of My Way	-	Radiopaque	7" single	split (w/ Scrawl), 1400 copies
1995	-	-	The Long Hair of Death	Duophonic	-	7" single	split (w/ Yo La Tengo), 3000 copies
1995	-	-	The Eclipse	Wurlitzer Jukebox	-	Flexidisc single	split (w/ Cat's Miaow), 1000 copies
1996	-	-	Laminations	Elektra	-	CD EP	promo
1996	-	-	Noises	-	-	-	promo
1996	-	-	Percolations	Uberschall	-	7" single	split (w/ Foetus and Faust), 2000 copies
1996	-	-	You Used To Call Me Sadness	Lissy's	-	7" single	split (w/ Fuxa), 1900 copies
1996	-	-	Speedy Car	Duophonic	-	7" single	split (w/ Tortoise), 3000 copies
1997	-	-	Cadriopo	Groovy Moogy Recordings	-	7" single	split (w/ Fugu)
1997	-	-	The Noise Of Carpet	Elektra	-	CD EP	promo
1997	-	-	Miss Modular Remix	Elektra	-	12" EP	2000 copies
1997	-	-	Iron Man	Duophonic	-	7" single	3,700 copies
1998	-	-	Refractions in the Plastic Pulse	Duophonic	-	12" single	two-track remix
1998	-	-	Stereolab Sampler	East West Japan	-	CD	promo Japanese only compilation
1998	-	-	Symbolic Logic Of Now!	Luke Warm Music	-	7" single	split (w/ Soi-Disant)
1999	April	-	The In Sound	Independent Project Records	-	7" single	2500 copies
1999	-	-	The Underground Is Coming	Duophonic	-	7" EP
2001	-	-	Free Witch And No Bra Queen	Duophonic	-	7" single	2,000 copies
2001	-	-	"Rose, My Rocket-Brain"	Duophonic	-	7" single, mini CD	500 copies
2006	-	-	"Solar Throw-Away / Jump Drive Shut-Out"	Duophonic	-	7" single	3,600 copies
2008	-	-	"Spool Of Collusion "	4AD	-	7" single	5000 copies, free with Chemical Chords
2025	-	-	"Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon "	Duophonic	-	7" single	European/US tour single

Notes

1. "Fed Up With Your Job?" did not enter the UK Singles chart, but peaked at number 24 on the UK Singles Sales Charts^[11]