A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular is the first album by the Belgian

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 band Hooverphonic

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 when the band was only known as Hoover. It was the only album with singer Liesje Sadonius

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. The song "2Wicky" was featured in the movies Stealing Beauty

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by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci

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, and Permanent Midnight

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. It is based on a loop from Isaac Hayes

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' cover of the Burt Bacharach

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 and Hal David

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 penned "Walk On By." The singles released from this album are "2Wicky", "Wardrope", "Barabas" and "Inhaler".

The album's title, A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular, is also the catchphrase of the iconic Japanese Shibuya-kei

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Track listing

1. "Inhaler" (Alex Callier, Raymond Geerts) – 5:11
2. "2Wicky" (Callier, Geerts, B. Bacharach, H. David, P. Henry) – 4:44
3. "Wardrope" (Callier, Geerts) – 4:31
4. "Plus Profond" (Callier) – 4:24
5. "Barabas" (Callier) – 3:50
6. "Cinderella" (Callier, Geerts, Frank Duchêne, Liesje Sadonius) – 3:52
7. "Nr 9" (Callier) – 3:38
8. "Sarangi" (Callier) – 4:16
9. "Someone" (Callier, Geerts, Duchêne, Sadonius) – 4:11
10. "Revolver" (Callier) – 3:54
11. "Innervoice" (Callier, Geerts) – 4:34

Singles

Year	Title	BE
1996	"2Wicky"	-
	"Wardrope"	-
	"Inhaler"	-
	"Barabas"	-

Personnel

• Liesje Sadonius – vocals
• Raymond Geerts – guitars, breaths
• Frank Duchêne – engineering, keyboards
• Alex Callier – programming, keyboards

Also credited:

• Eric Bosteels – drums on "Inhaler", "Nr 9", "Sarangi", "Revolver" and "Innervoice"
• Stefan Bracoval – flute solo on "Wardrope"
• Ursi Vanderherten – French parlando on "Plus Profond"
• Charlotte Van de Perre – Spanish parlando on "Cinderella"
• Sven Muller – single note bass on "Cinderella"