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Cybele's Reverie
EP by Stereolab
Released	19 February 1996
Studio	Idful, Chicago, Illinois
Length	20:36
Language	French
Label	Duophonic
Producer	John McEntire Stereolab
Stereolab chronology
Refried Ectoplasm: Switched on, Vol. 2 (1995) Cybele's Reverie (1996) Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996)

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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

• Mary Hansen – Vocals
• Sally Herbert – Strings
• Marcus Holdaway – Strings
• John McEntire – Synthesizer, Maracas, Tambourine, Producer, Engineer, Vibraphone, Mixing, Electronic Devices
• Sean O'Hagan – Organ, Piano (Electric), String Arrangements, Wurlitzer, Vox Organ
• Stereolab – Producer, Mixing
• Paul Tipler – Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Brad Wood – Saxophone

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References

1. Allmusic review
2. "Stereolab: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 August 2017.

• "Cybele's Reverie [EP]". Stereolab. All Media Guide/All Music. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
• "cybele's reverie". Stereolab Official Site. Stereolab. Archived from the original on 2001-07-09. Retrieved 2007-05-05.

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Tim Gane Lætitia Sadier Andy Ramsay Joe Watson Xavier Muñoz Guimera Mary Hansen Sean O'Hagan
Studio albums	Peng! Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements Mars Audiac Quintet Emperor Tomato Ketchup Dots and Loops Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night Sound-Dust Margerine Eclipse Chemical Chords Not Music
Compilations	Switched On Refried Ectoplasm: Switched On, Vol. 2 Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions Oscillons from the Anti-Sun Fab Four Suture Serene Velocity (A Stereolab Anthology) Electrically Possessed: Switched On, Vol. 4 Pulse of the Early Brain: Switched On, Vol. 5
EPs	Super 45 Super-Electric Low Fi Space Age Bachelor Pad Music Crumb Duck Jenny Ondioline Ping Pong Wow and Flutter Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center Cybele's Reverie Fluorescences Miss Modular Simple Headphone Mind The Free Design The First of the Microbe Hunters Captain Easychord Instant 0 in the Universe
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