LAETITIA Sadier, the former chanteuse in the Anglo-French avant-pop band Stereolab, returns to York this weekend with her new band in tow.
In the spotlight will be Sadier's new album, Find Me Finding You, recorded with the Source Ensemble of Nina Savary and long-time collaborators Xavi Muñoz and Emmanuel Mario, who will accompany her at The Crescent.
Released last month, the album is "an inspired, collaborative effort full of exciting, new dynamics interspersed with sounds that Sadier and 'Lab Heads' will find comfortingly familiar".
First single Undying Love For Humanity finds Sadier proclaiming "power to the people – now!" in a call to arms for the public to recognise and exercise their strength for good. It heralds an album that "expresses great compassion and expectation, as well as an abiding belief in an underlying unity that permeates and intimately binds all things and beings".
The support act on the 7.30pm bill will be Batsch, a British indie-pop quartet whose groove-orientated, agitated dance-pop nods in the direction of art rock pioneers Talking Heads and modern contemporaries Little Dragon and Dutch Uncles. All four members have toured and recorded with other artists, including Laetitia Sadier, and after their debut EP, Tiles, in October 2013 and a five-track follow-up, Collar, in 2014, they release their debut album, Batch, on April 21 on Tin Angel Records.
Tickets cost £10 at pleasepleaseyou.com or in person from The Inkwell, in Gillygate, York, and Jumbo Records in Leeds.
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