Laetitia Sadier Returns w/ New Album “Rooting for Love” on Drag City : 2/23
French native and UK based musician Laetitia Sadier established the legendary group Stereolab with creative partner Tim Gane in the early 90s while working as a nanny and has since gained worldwide status and critical acclaim with albums like “Emperor Tomato Ketchup” and the 1997 classic “Dots and Loops”. Throughout her definitive career she has led various projects such as Duophonic and Monade before releasing music under her own name with Drag City debut “The Trip” back in 2010. With great distance since 2014’s “Something Shines”, Sadier has returned with her highly anticipated follow up album entitled “Rooting For Love” and is set for release towards the end of February. The album dances in this sensitive rhythm between both her native tongue and the soft subtle landings of English tracks such as “The Inner Smile”, “The Dash” and the album’s opener “Who + What”. With huge swells of choreographed ecstasy and this sort of protested negativity, Sadier explores the tempo of planetary alignment and the cold hallways of an abandon city someplace wicked and serene.
Sadier has a interesting way of coexisting periods of time in her music. Blending the past with the very distant future and an even more eerie present, the album’s first single “Une Autre Attente” alters the way we feel about dance and exorcism. With snowy peaks in a prehistoric countryside completely decapitated by echo chamber hands in dystopian cuffs and cold finger prayers building a near death climax melody, the album’s ender “Cloud 6”, creates this lush marquee for all to see. And with a message as positive and enlightening as “Rooting for Love”, there’s no denying that there’s still hope in a world full of half read books, unopened hearts and minds turned to glass from unsupervised contact with flames. There’s still hope in a world full of good people and progressive expressions through music and art. You just to have to look every once in awhile and come for air from your phones and smile with your eyes to those around you. “Rooting for Love” is a service to humanity and a messages to ourselves.
