Laetitia Sadier. Photo by Marie Merlet.
Laetitia Sadier has announced her first solo album since 2017’s Find Me Finding You. Rooting For Love is due out February 23, 2024 via Drag City. Its lead single, “Une Autre Attente,” is out now alongside a Spencer Bewley visual treatment.
The 10-track project’s personnel include Sadier’s fellow Stereolab member Xavi Muñoz on bass, Hannes Plattemier and Emma Mario on production and electronica, and an alternating cast on organ, guitar, drums, trombone, and vibraphone, as well as a “vocal assembly of men and women billed as The Choir,” according to a press release. A week after its release, Sadier will tour North America to promote the record, making a squiggly, slightly broken clockwise circle around the United States and lower Canada, from San Francisco to Big Sur.
“Une Autre Attente” is proof positive of Sadier’s musical genius, even beyond her iconic singing voice. While far from a Stereolab clone, the track’s arrangement is instantly identifiable as springing from the mind that led Emperor Tomato Ketchup and Dots and Loops to completion. Beyond its jazzy chords, tight syncopation, and fast-pivoting groove, the track brims with the same wide-eyed, cosmic energy that carried those seminal records a quarter-century ago.
Watch the abstract, animated music video for “Ue Autre Attente” below, and scroll further for Rooting For Love’s cover art and tracklist, as well as Laetitia Sadier’s upcoming tour dates.
Rooting For Love album art and tracklist
1. Who + What
2. Proteiformunite
3. Une Autre Attente
4. The Dash
5. Don’t Forget You’re Mine
6. Panser L’inacceptable
7. The Inner Smile
8. La Nageuse Nue
9. New Moon
10. Cloud 6
Laetitia Sadier 2024 North America tour
March 2 - San Francisco CA - The Chapel
March 4 - Portland OR - Polaris Hall
March 5 - Seattle WA - Barboza
March 6 - Vancouver BC - Fox Cabaret
March 8 - Salt Lake City UT - Kilby Court
March 9 - Denver CO - Lost Lake
March 11 - Minneapolis MN - Turf Club
March 12 - Chicago IL - Empty Bottle
March 13 - Detroit MI - Third Man
March 15 - Toronto ON - Garrison
March 16 - Montreal QC - Bar Le Ritz
March 20 - Brooklyn NY - National Sawdust
March 21 - Boston MA - Arts at the Armory
March 22 - Philadelphia PA - Johnny Brenda’s
March 23 - Washington DC - Songbyrd
March 25 - Atlanta GA - EARL
March 26 - Nashville TN - Blue Room
March 28 - Houston TX - White Oak Music Hall Upstairs
March 29 - Dallas TX - Club Dada
March 30 - Austin TX - Parish
April 2 - Phoenix AZ - Rebel Lounge
April 3 - Pioneertown CA - Pappy & Harriets
April 4 - Los Angeles CA - Zebulon
April 5 - Big Sur CA - Fernwood Tavern
