Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements

Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements is the second studio album by English-French rock band Stereolab. It was released on 24 August 1993 and was issued by Duophonic Records and Elektra Records.

Shortly before the release of Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements, 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 with Announcements was released on 24 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 with Announcements were destroyed due to bad pressing quality.

On its release, Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements 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 with Announcements was released by Duophonic and Warp on 3 May 2019.