Pitchfork

As Pitchfork news reported several weeks ago, slow-drift drone mavens Stars of the Lid are embarking on a fall tour of Europe. During the trek they'll be selling a CD called Carte-de-Visite, which collects unreleased material, compilation tracks, and other odds'n'ends (included among these is "Virginia", their track from The Kahanek Incident - Volume 3, a highly recommended sample-swapping 1997 split EP with Labradford, who returned the favor geographically with "Texas"). "Slight on the Childproof", a previously unreleased track, is taken from Carte-de-Visite. I don't know the song's vintage, but given its clean recording and wisps of sound alternating with uneasily long silences, I'd date it post-2000, anyway. If it does come from earlier than that, it's a harbinger of their more focused and precise later work.

MP3:> Stars of the Lid: "Slight on the Childproof"
[from Carte-de-Visite; available from the band on their tour]