The music of Stereolab is a sort of alien visitation designed to lobotomize the listener and leave them not a stupefied shell of their former self but rather a new being whose soul has been scraped clean and whose mind has been pried open, doors removed from the hinges and thrown into a ravine soon to be disappeared by the undergrowth while the skull cavity stares into the sky fresh air cooling the brain and sun sticking little needles of light into the mind. Always leaves me whirling. | image by @domzalski.gazaryan