Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

It was recorded with an expanded line-up, and is generally considered to be the band's noisiest release due to its emphasis on distorted guitars and keyboard sounds.

Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
Studio album by Stereolab
Released	10 August 1993 (1993-08-10)
Recorded	May 1993
Studio	Blackwing (London)
Genre	Experimental rock indie pop post-rock krautrock
Length	61:52
Label	Duophonic Elektra
Producer	Phil Wright
Stereolab chronology
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (1993) Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (1993) Crumb Duck (1993)
Singles from Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
"Jenny Ondioline" Released: 22 August 1993

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Chicago Tribune
Mojo
Pitchfork	8.3/10
Q
Record Collector
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Select	3/5
Spin Alternative Record Guide	9/10
Uncut	8/10

Shortly before the release of Transient Random-Noise Bursts, Stereolab re-recorded the song "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" to remove a sample from George Harrison's Wonderwall Music that they were denied clearance to use.

On the LP edition of the album, the end of the last track, "Lock-Groove Lullaby", extends into a locked groove repeating a phrase sampled from Perrey and Kingsley's "The Savers", from their 1967 album Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Pop Music from Way Out.

Transient Random-Noise Bursts was released on 10 August 1993 in the United States by Elektra Records and on 6 September 1993 in the United Kingdom by Duophonic Records. The album's sleeve design was adapted from that of a hi-fi test record issued by Hi-Fi Sound magazine in 1969; the record itself is sampled on the song "Jenny Ondioline". The majority of the first 1,500 LP copies of Transient Random-Noise Bursts were destroyed due to bad pressing quality.

On its release, Transient Random-Noise Bursts peaked at number 62 on the UK Albums Chart. In advance of the album, "Jenny Ondioline" was released on 22 August 1993.

A remastered and expanded edition of Transient Random-Noise Bursts was released by Duophonic and Warp on 3 May 2019.

Sample credits

• "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" embodies portions of "Strangers in the Night", written by Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, and Eddie Snyder.
• "I'm Going Out of My Way" embodies portions of "One Note Samba", written by Antônio Jobim, Jon Hendricks, and Newton Mendonça.
• "Jenny Ondioline" contains samples from "Channel Recognition Phasing & Balance", used courtesy of Haymarket Publishing.
• "Lock-Groove Lullaby" embodies portions of "The Savers", written by Jean Marcel Leroy and Gershon Kingsley.

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Stereolab

• Tim Gane – guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, bongo drum, tambourine
• Lætitia Sadier – vocals, Vox organ, guitar, tambourine, Moog synthesizer
• Duncan Brown – bass, guitar twang, vocals
• Mary Hansen – vocals, tambourine, guitar
• Sean O'Hagan – Farfisa and Vox organs, guitar
• Andy Ramsay – percussion, Vox organ, bouzouki

Production

• Stereolab (credited as "The Groop") – mixing
• Phil Wright – production, engineering, mixing