ALBUM REVIEW – LAETITIA SADIER: ROOTING FOR LOVE

Stereolab were one of the most significant bands to emerge in the first half of the 1990s. Initially, no-one sounded like them. It was a period where so-called independent music was dominated by grunge and then Britpop, both regressive and conservative forces. In contrast, Stereolab’s use of motorik rhythms at a time when krautrock was […]
Just announced: Single day tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 28th July 2017 for the first time for the 2017 edition of Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia. Songhoy Blues will headline the Friday night (22nd September) and The Black Angels headline Saturday (23rd September). Amongst those on the Friday line-up revealed today are […]

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Album Review: Laetitia Sadlier – Silencio

Laetitia Sadlier, erstwhile singer with 90s influential experimental krautrock pop band Stereolab and main member of Stereolab side project Monade, follows up her debut solo album, The Trip, with her second album for Drag City, Silencio. On first listen, Silencio immediately comes across as a more fleshed out sound with more nuanced textures than The […]