When an early version of Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox's second album under the Atlas Sound moniker leaked to the internet last summer, the Atlanta native was peeved. "Fuck this shit," he wrote to his blog at the time. "It's not finished and now it never will be."

Singing in both English and French, vocalist Laetitia Sadier and this London-based group of music vets continued their epic ambient-electro legacy last night at Austin's La Zona Rosa.

What? Since their inception 18 years ago, London's Stereolab have seen various sonic changes -- from Krautrock to bossa nova and beyond -- yet have maintained both a gorgeous French patois and their characteristic percolating rhythms -- think the cast of Friends with their constantly changing haircuts, only replace the bratty ent