I remember being very excited when I received this via mail order. I was a massive fan of Huggy Bear, and I'd also seen Stereolab play a couple of times. The music isn't really that great, but the packaging is lovely. The best bit for me was finding years later just who Darlin' were. I'd bought the first Daft Punk album and was somewhat surprised to see the yellow Darlin' sticker on the gatefold photo. It also made this Duophonic double pack even more collectable! The transformation from indie-shoegazers to filter-discoers is huge and was definitely a good move by the Frenchmen.

This record contains the only two available tracks from Darlin', a french indie noise-pop band named after a Beach Boys' song (musically kind of a cross between The Beach Boys and The Jesus&Mary Chain) whose members included the young Guy-Man De Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter. A review in NME called Darlin' 'daft punks', which they thought was cool. So cool that they kept the name when they threw the guitars, bleached their hairs and went to raves. The rest is history.