Tour Dates
10/03/12 Seattle, WA @ Barboza
Read More10/04/12 Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar 10/05/12 SF, CA @ Bottom of the Hill 10/06/12 LA, CA @ Culture Collide Fest 10/10/12 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive 10/11/12 Lincoln, NE @ Lincoln Calling 11/05/12 Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute 11/06/12 Glasgow, UK @ Captains Rest 11/07/12 Edinburgh, UK @ Sneaky Pete's 11/09/12 Dublin, IE @ Workman's Club 11/10/12 Galway, IE @ Roisin Dubh 11/12/12 Cardiff, UK @ The Globe 11/13/12 London, UK @ XOYO 11/14/12 Brighton, UK @ Sticky MIkes 11/16/12 - Gent, BE @ Charlatan 11/17/12 - Cologne, DE @ King Georg 11/18/12 - Berlin, DE @ Berghain 11/19/12 - Munich, DE @ Orangehouse 11/21/12 - Vevey, CH @ Rocking Chair 11/22/12 - Paris @ Le Point Ephemere 11/25/12 - Bordeaux @ Le Comptoir Du Laetitia Sadier Lætitia Sadier just released her second solo album, Silencio, last month (July 24th) on Drag City. The album is said to be about "the noise" …
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For those not familiar with Sadier, she is, or rather was, the main singer of Stereolab, a band from London. The band was mostly known for loungey keyboard pop sound with Sadier's distinctive French accent (either sung in French or English). While the band tour Australia in 2009, it would seem that the status of Stereolab is one of "indefinite hiatus."
Post-Stereolab, we saw Sadier with her debut solo release of The Trip (which you can see on the setlist that she did two "Ceci Est Le Coeur" and "Statues Can Bend" back to back), and, more recently, released Silencio.
I had a hard time understanding her English, so when she's singing (either in French or English), I had a harder time understanding what was being sung. Musically, her solo work seems more guitar-based, and a touch political bent to her songs (specially about democracy in her "Price for Freedom" song).
As expected, the majority of the set are songs from the new album, including "The Rule of the Game", "Between Earth And Heaven", "Find Me The Pulse of the Universe", "There Is a Price To Pay For Freedom (And It Isn't Security)", "Auscultation To the Nation", and "Silent Spot."
The odd-song-out was "Étoile", which closed out the set. The song is from her other French band Monade.
Encore had two songs: "Lightning Thunderbolt" and "Next Time You See Me", both from Silencio.
If were looking for loungepop/Stereolab songs, don't expect to find any at Lætitia Sadier's show. If you love Sadier's solo work, then you should definitely want to see her on tour to hear Silencio live. Sadier is currently on tour in support of the album, and her last North American appearance will be on October 11th in Nebraska, of all places.
Laetitia Sadier at 400 Bar, Minneapolis (09/30/12) |
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