Album Review: Find Me Finding You by Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble

Laetitia Sadier has spent much of her career decrying capitalism, but on the Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble's debut album, Find Me Finding You, she responds to the late-2010s resurgence of right-wing forces with idealism instead of polemics. As she explores how politics are interconnected on a global and personal level, she reaffirms that the foundation of her beliefs is love. Not a sentimental, possessive love, but an "Undying Love for Humanity," as she describes it on the album's thrumming opening track.

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Ostensibly inspired by "a mind's-eye envisaging of geometric forms and their possible permutations", erstwhile Stereolab chanteuse Laetitia Sadier has assembled a work of characteristic grace with her new fellow travellers, The Source Ensemble. And while Find Me Finding You won't necessarily offend dyed-in-the-woofer Stereolab aficionados - no apple need ever fall far from such an efflorescent tree - it still successfully stakes out a corner of its own, its abstract yet meticulously formal layers suggesting an aural Mondrian painting. Sadier's confounding gift is the ability to convey an inundation of deeper feeling with a level, impassive gaze, singing in her matter-of-fact, emotionally unencumbered manner.

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In an interview surrounding her 2014 album Something Shines , former Stereolab singer Laetitia Sadier laughingly said that, since the days of her old group, she's been " cultivating the same piece of land, [but] maybe I grow different vegetables." The pithy comment stands as a fairly perfect summation of the 48-year-old's career. S ince arriving on the European indie scene back in 1991 with the first Stereolab EP, Super 45 , Sadier's vocal and lyrical approach has remained consistent: She applies her crystalline alto to lyrics that explore philosophy and political inequality through a Marxist lens. In Stereolab and as a solo artist, Sadier's musical tastes have tended to skew nostalgic, mixing influences of 1960s pop from the U.S.

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