SERvin’ Up! – w/c March 31, 2017

Feedtime – Gas
The Courtneys – The Courtneys II
Madlib – Bad Neighbour Instrumentals
Your Old Droog – Packs
The Cairo Gang – Untouchable
Nmandi Ogbonnaya – Drool
Laetitia Sadier Sound Source Ensemble – Find Me Finding You
Nattali Rize – Rebel Frequency
Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens
Various Artists – Hustle! Reggae Disco

Hello,

There’s surely many soft spots out there for one of the truly great bands of the 80s and 90s, Stereolab. While they’re no longer, various new projects have cropped up from time to time, including Tim Gane’s Cavern of Anti-Matter. Singer and Lyricist Laetitia Sadier has been the most visible with a string of solo projects and collaborations, the latest under the banner of Laetita Sadier Sound Source Ensemble. Find Me Finding You is their first release and while the sounds it contains will be warmly familiar to Stereolab fans, Sadier’s creative well is still running deep. Like her old band, Sadier continues to milk nostalgic sounds to future ends – picking the most inventive stuff to do so like German cosmic electronic music, Brazilian pop, 70s funk and avant-jazz – for her singular, atmospheric pop. Sadier’s global reach with her sound matches her global concerns for humanity in her philosophical and searching lyricism. How she does it with such charm and grace is testament to her enduring status as one of pop’s great thinkers.

Have a look at the size of Chicago multi-instrumentalist Nnamdi Ogbonnaya‘s catalogue on bandcamp and you might think you’re looking at the actual entirely of bandcamp itself. There is that much music emanating from this freakish talent, pus there’s another six bands he’s involved with as well. His latest missive Drool is being released by the Father/Daughter label, and works a similar kind of hyperactive elastic sound as Thundercat, but often comes off like TV on The Radio on an Afro-beat and hip hop bender, refracted through a decidedly oddball point of view. Drool is on the right side of manic, full of substance altogether infectious.

Kelly Lee Owens hails from Wales but now lives in London where club culture took hold on her own music, Owens shifting from her indie-rock roots to make her debut album. The fully immersive self-titled longplayer balances calm textural beauty and pulsating undercurrents, as if Beach House went techno, but Lee Owens has created her own space, channelling the open-ended, vulnerable lyricism aligned with more indie-pop sounds to make for electronic dream-pop that goes deeper than the dancefloor.

Also, new tunes from Oscar Dowling, Jason Isbell, Kirin J Callinan, Braille Face, Aeriae, Woods, Coldcut X On U Sound,Fazerdaze and Sydney artist Plantlife.

Enjoy it all on 2SER,

Andrew