Lætitia Sadier at Turf Club, St Paul (11 Mar 2024)

Laetitia Sadier Setlist

Dry Fruit Protéïformunité Don’t Forget You’re Mine Ode To A Keyring Reflectors Cloud Six Panser L’Inacceptable New Moon La Nageuse Nue The Swimm

Tour Dates

French musician Lætitia Sadier (aka Seaya Sadier) is currently on a US tour in support of Rooting For Love (available now on Drag City). Sadier stopped by the Turf Club, in St Paul, on March 11th to showcase some of those songs.

As we previously mentioned, Sadier is perhaps best known for being a founding member of London-based avant-pop band Stereolab. Unfortunately, Stereolab often goes into inactive status, and so Sadier would go on to release music under her side project Monade, or Lætitia Sadier Source Ensemble, and currently under her own name.

 

 

While we saw Stereolab Desert Daze 2019, the last time we saw Lætitia Sadier solo was in March 2015 (as part of Helado Negro’s ensemble) and September 2012: “For those not familiar with Sadier, she is, or rather was, the main singer of Stereolab, a band from London. The band was mostly known for loungey keyboard pop sound with Sadier’s distinctive French accent (either sung in French or English). While the band tour Australia in 2009, it would seem that the status of Stereolab is one of “indefinite hiatus.” Post-Stereolab, we saw Sadier with her debut solo release of The Trip (which you can see on the setlist that she did two “Ceci Est Le Coeur” and “Statues Can Bend” back to back), and, more recently, released Silencio.”

The music is, of course, still loungey, and really meant to be enjoyed as passive music. Something you might put on in the background while you’re drawing. In the case of her intro track, “Dry Fruit”, Sadier described the song as being in space.

Unlike her 2012 tour, she doesn’t have a backup band. In fact, her “band” is her beat machine, next to the “Minnesota Wild” coffee mug. While the machine has some great, upbeat loops, most people would agree that a she could have benefited from a live band.

If you enjoy spacey/lounge music, check out Laetitia Sadier’s Rooting For Love, out now on Drag City.

Opening the show was folk singer/songwriter Susan James. She played a few dates with Sadier in California, and as an extension, joined Sadier on a mini-midwest tour, with the Turf Club being her last show with Sadier.

The Californian native writes songs about her experiences, for example writing a song about an old protest grandmother, after being inspired by her enthusiasm. Some songs were from her last album Sea Glass, which was re-issued on vinyl via Sunstone Records a few years ago.

Her forthcoming album, Time Is Now, is set for June 2024, but she did preview the title track for us.