Laetitia Sadier goes solo

Love the single (unsurprisingly).

modern cosmology — "a time to blossom" (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O0KGPNhZhU

i like this a lot.

like the other modern cosmology record wasn't even that good. this is transcendent though; cocteaus go sunshine pop. really looking forward to the forthcoming thing.

Gorgeous!

okay, this is completely great.

ooh, thanks for the heads up, didn't realize this was out

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's oh so good and i highly recommend it. very much a different thing entirely from the first modern cosmology record - and i'd say that definitely works in its favor. thoughts overall will come into clearer focus with more listens, but damn this is some good shit.

New album is fantastic and the solo show tonight in SF was WONDERFUL. Just her, her guitar, some preprogramming, live loops at points and at one point her trombone. Wonderful night out!

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I will always love that she plays a right handed guitar upside down

Album sounds good to me on first listen. She's not doing anything I didn't expect, but she is doing her style well

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this is coming out on record store day — first four solo albums. will probably be expen$ive.

oops wrong thread!

but hey, i'm seeing Laetitia this weekend — did not think it was going to be an actual "solo" show! That is interesting / cool.

This is pretty nice, though (tbh) nothing Gane or Sadier have done apart from Stereolab has measured up to prime-time Stereolab

I saw her in SF, too. It was a great, intimate show. But she was under the weather and made some mistakes. Per her 'disclaimer,' it did really feel like a warm-up show. She ended the performance by speaking really candidly to the crowd, and shared that she was concerned she might lose her voice. She's got a long tour ahead of her, and I hope she is hanging in there! Seeing her live was really special.

Ah, if there were mistakes, I didn't sense them as such, or at least nothing beyond what can normally happen in a live show -- I recall one song having a false start moment but that was about it! But yes, I hope that tea for her throat helped!

the last time i saw her (pre-pandemic!) in philly she broke her guitar mid-song, arranged with the opening band watching in the wings to borrow one of theirs, restrung it to deal with her being left-handed (?) all while her group held it down, without missing a groove. so so good

I'm re-reading my post and feeling guilty for coming off so negative. She was great, and the rawness of the performance was really something special. The new album really shines! :)

"the last time i saw her (pre-pandemic!) in philly she broke her guitar mid-song, arranged with the opening band watching in the wings to borrow one of theirs, restrung it to deal with her being left-handed (?)"

She plays a conventionally strung right handed guitar, but lefty. That's her thing.