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Plus Laetitia Sadier, Michael Kiwanuka, HARD FEELINGS, Hamilton Leithauser and Kevin Morby, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Oct 15, 2021
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a blockbuster week for new songs, although the week’s biggest song (Adele’s “Easy On Me”) didn’t make the list. But “Easy On Me” did set the all-time record for biggest single day streams for a song in Spotify history, so Adele will be fine. This week we have a supersized Top 12 and a solid honorable mentions list. More
New Album Due Out in 2022 via Drag City and Duophonic Super 45s
Oct 15, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Stereolab vocalist Laetitia Sadier has shared a new song, “New Moon,” via a video for it. It is said to be the first taste of a new solo album due out in 2022 via Drag City and Duophonic Super 45. More
New Solo Album And New Project, Little Tornados
Jul 08, 2014
By Cody Ray Shafer
Laetitia Sadier has a new album coming out next month. Something Shines will be Sadier’s third solo record, and the follow up to 2012’s Silencio. More
Aug 02, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Lætitia Sadier goes for an afternoon swim in the new video for Silencio cut, “The Rule of the Game.” More
A Conversation Between Bradford Cox and Laetitia Sadier
Oct 11, 2010
By John Everhart (Intro by and Moderated by)
Under the Radar‘s Fall 2010 Issue features a conversation between Deerhunter and Atlas Sound’s Bradford Cox and Stereolab frontwoman Laetitia Sadier. The full transcript of the conversation is now posted on our website. More
Not Music to Feature 13 Tracks, Including Atlas Sound Remix
Aug 17, 2010
By John Everhart
Stereolab are set to release their 12th LP Not Music November 16 on Drag City in the U.S. and Duophonic in the U.K. We have the tracklisting and details. More
The Trip Out September 21st
Jul 09, 2010
By Laura Studarus
With Stereolab on a break, frontwoman Lætitia Sadier has taken the opportunity to announce details of her debut solo album, The Trip (September 21st). We have the facts. More
Interviews
Dec 05, 2014
By Hays Davis
Five years since Stereolab was set aside, Laetitia Sadier has released an album that seems to be a personal peak of sorts. After several albums with Monade and two previous solo releases, Something Shines offers a collection of songs that is not only likely to connect with fans of her earlier work but even moved Sadier herself during its creation to want to share it with friends. More
Sep 10, 2012
By Matt Fink
Given the numerous ways that an indelicate hand can render them ever so ineffectively, it’s possible that there’s no more challenging assignment for a songwriter than penning a potent political song. If true, there are very few songwriters who have walked that tightrope for longer and with more deftness than Laetitia Sadier, an artist who has proven that a soft touch is often more powerful than a punch when politics are involved. More
A Conversation Between Bradford Cox and Laetitia Sadier
Oct 11, 2010
By John Everhart (Intro by and Moderated by)
Deerhunter and Atlas Sound’s Bradford Cox has long professed his love for Stereolab, in particular 1999’s Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night, his favorite album by the band. He went so far as to effusively explicate upon its merits on a Deerhunter blog post back in 2007. In an impassioned manner akin to the prime years of the fiery late gonzo journalist Lester Bangs, he also excoriated the publications that panned the album. More
Reviews
Jul 23, 2012
By John Everhart
For any film buff, the title of Laetitia Sadier’s second solo LP since Stereolab went on indefinite hiatus may hold an immediate connotation of the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive. More specifically, Club Silencio, the dank cabaret club where a mysterious figure urges to the protagonists, “There is no band,” although an act is playing a gorgeous version of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” sung in Spanish in plain sight. More
