Laetitia Sadier (of Stereolab) shares video for new song “Panser L'unacceptable”
Rooting For Love Out February 23rd via Drag City
January 10, 2024
Photo by Marie Merlet
Stereolab singer Laetitia Sadier is releasing a new solo album, Rooting For Love, on February 23 via Drag City. Now he's shared another new song from it, the lush “Panser L'unacceptable,” via a music video. Christopher Thomas Allen co-directed the video with Sadier. Check it out below, followed by her upcoming tour dates.
A press release describes the song and video in more detail: “On 'Panser L'unacceptable', Laetitia's wheel-like rhythm guitar paddles across the waters on a raft of Gamelan patterns, with synth strings trailing in its wake. The video, created by Laetitia and director Christopher Thomas Allen, flashes through images of the natural world: water, rock formations, long rays of sunlight and stalks of wheat provide an idyllic setting that is ultimately wandered by Laetitia herself. As she walks barefoot through a forest and piles through a cemetery, the images of nature's richness take on a Tarkovskyian resonance: a romance from which we humans are unnaturally removed. The chorus swells with each passage, and as Laetitia sinks slowly into the sea and through the forest, we consider the title: “Panser L'unacceptable” (“panser” means bandage, or otherwise cure damage)—a dip with the head manipulation and healing of past wounds. This theme hangs omnipresent in the endless skies that span over the ten tracks that make up Rooting For Love.”
Rooting For Love is its sequel Find me and I'll find you, which was released under the name Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble in 2017 via Drag City. The new album includes “New Moon”, a new song shared in 2021 (the time the new album was released in 2022). “New Moon” was one of the songs of the week. When the album was announced in November, Sadier shared the song “Une Autre Attente” via a music video. It was also one of the songs of the week.
The album features bassist Xavi Muñoz, among other players. Hannes Plattemier and Emma Mario took turns mixing the tracks Rooting For Love.
In 2021, Sadier was a guest on Jarvis Cocker's cover of Dalida's 1973 duet with Alain Delon, “Paroles, Paroles”. Featured on Cocker's album, Chansons D'Ennui Tip-Topwhich was a companion piece to the Wes Anderson film, The French mission.
Also read our 2014 interview with Sadier or our 2010 interview where Sadier and Deerhunter's Bradford Cox interviewed each other.
Laetitia Sadier tour Dates 2024:
Sat. March 2 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
Mon March 4th – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall *
Tue., Mar. 5 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza *
Marry. March 6 – Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret *
Fri., Mar. 8 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court *
Sat. March 9 – Denver, CO @ Lost Lake *
Mon March 11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club *
Tue March 12th – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle #
Marry. March 13 – Detroit, MI @ Third Man
Fri March 15th – Toronto, ON @ Garrison
Sat. March 16 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
Marry. March 20 – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust ^
Thu Mar 21 – Boston, MA @ Arts at the Armory ^
Fri March 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's ^
Sat. March 23 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd ^
Mon March 25th – Atlanta, GA @ The EARL
Tue Mar 26 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room
Thu March 28 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall Upstairs %
Fri March 29 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada %
Sat. March 30 – Austin, TX @ Parish %
Tue Apr 2nd – Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge %
Marry. April 3 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet's %
Thu Apr 4 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon %
Fri Apr 5 – Big Sur, CA @ Fernwood Tavern %
Mon Apr 8 – San Juan, PR @ Club 77
* with Susan James
# w/ Radio International
^ with the storefront church
% with Sofia Bolt
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