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Showing posts with label laetitia sadier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laetitia sadier. Show all posts

Monday, 8 April 2024

Monday's Long Song

I first heard this song in a bar in Glasgow in 2017, an eight and a half minutes long dream state song that drifts in with undulating organ and eventually a rickety rhythm. The vocal is courtesy of Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier, sounding like she's half asleep and a few feet away from the microphone. There's a brief pause half way through and then it starts back up again, a bank of static drone/ noise coming to the fore. It's all very hazy and languid, the soundtrack to one of those days you don't want to end. 

Atlas Sound is Bradford Cox's ambient/ indie side hustle. He's better known as the frontman in Deerhunter. Logos is Atlas Sound's second album, released in 2009 on 4AD with Panda Bear also contributing. Looking at the track list I can't recall much about the rest of the album, definitely one to go back to if Quick Canal is anything to go by.

Quick Canal

I noticed when writing this post that this is Bagging Area post number 5678 which is pleasing numerically. Two songs suggested themselves to me to mark this seismic event, the first that godawful song by Steps- no, don't worry, I'm not posting it- and the other Woo Hoo by The 5.6.7.8.'s, a Japanese band who found fame when the song was on the Kill Bill soundtrack back in 2003. I don't have that song but I do have the rockabilly original by The Rock- A- Teens from 1959.

Woo Hoo

Sunday, 7 May 2017

Quick Canal



Standing in a bar on Sauchiehall Street on Saturday night I got distracted by this song. I didn't know what it was but its hazy, motorik groove got its hooks into me. The vocals sounded like Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab (but if it was Stereolab it was a song I didn't know and neither did Drew). Curiosity got the better of me so I went and asked the dj and it turns out it was Laetitia, singing on an Atlas Sound song. I'd not heard Atlas Sound before- an offshoot for Bradford Cox from Deerhunter (who I don't think I've heard anything by either but I know the name).

Just give this a spin for the next nine minutes. It will improve your day a little.