Unlike the indignation typified by most political music, it’s not cynical or condemning, but a gentle rallying cry. Rooting For Love acknowledges civilisational trauma, the heat of a turbulent world and collapsing institutions, but doesn’t allow its spectre to negate the human instinct of hope. Imagine a French intelligentsia cocktail party where conversation topics range from Eastern philosophies and psychoactive countercultures to imagining new futures from both inner and outer-space. Rooting For Love is unsurprisingly sophisticated in its socio-politics. This is familiar territory for fans of Stereolab and Laetitia Sadier’s respective solo projects. And if done collectively, it could even change the world. In other words, self care doesn’t have to have narcissistic or hippy-dippy connotations, it can be radical -– especially in a world where the ideologies of capitalism are built on self hatred. The message is clear: methods of self improvement and engaging in art and culture are the only way we can go deep within to let the garbage out. On Rooting For Love, her first solo album since 2017, Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier explores ways of healing humanity inspired by her Zen Shiatsu training and the words of The Honeymoon Killers’ Véronique Vincent. On the basis of a growing interest in Mark Fisher’s acid communist beliefs, there also seems to be an emotional excavation of the self taking place in the arts, or at least a cognisance that for the world to truly change, we need to dig deep into our subconscious through self-nurturing and compassion. The post-hauntological psychedelic renaissance of late (see Vanishing Twin, Co-Pilot and The Soundcarriers to name a few) can be attributed to not just the wealth of information via the internet exposing us to all kinds of sounds from the past, but a new age radicalism that changes the musician’s narrative from self-destruction to self-preservation.
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