Laetitia Sadier And The Source Ensemble

Find Me Finding You

Erstwhile Stereolab singer’s bold new vehicle. After four solo albums of angular, politically infused, retro-futurist songcraft, Laetitia Sadier returns with a fresh, versatile ensemble featuring keyboard players David Thayer and Phil M FU alongside guitarist Mason le Long and long-time collaborators Emmanuel Mario and Xavi Munoz. Throwing down a persuasive gauntlet, opener Undying Love For Humanity is all breezy percussion, percolating synths, chiming vibraphones and complex, wordless backing vocal arrangements – a sunny, Tropicália-like setting for Sadier’s typically liquid delivery of lyrics apparently advocating optimism as a weapon in politically oppressive times. Elsewhere, Love Captive is a doleful duet with Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor about open relationships (“We are made to love/Not to fall in love”), while Psychology Active (Finding You)’s multiple time changes and fluttering synths err toward prog, and the pointillist keyboards, needling guitars and processed, deadpan French language vocals of Committed suggest a Gallic take on Krautrock. David Sheppard