“Panser L’inacceptable” By Laetitia Sadier

Laetitia Sadier welcomes 2024 with new single “Panser L’inacceptable” is second single/video from the artist’s forthcoming Rooting For Love, dropping February 23rd via Drag City, it follows the previously released single and video “Une Autre Attente.” After a lengthy tour with Stereolab in 2022, Laetitia’s first U.S. tour in seven years commences this spring with a performance at The Chapel in San Francisco on Saturday, March 2.

On “Panser L’inacceptable,” Laetitia’s rhythm guitar paddles the waters atop a raft of Gamelan patterns, synthesized strings trailing in her wake. The video, created by Laetitia and filmmaker Christopher Thomas Allen, flashes through images of the natural world: water, stone formations, long rays of sunlight and stalks of wheat provide an idyllic mise-en-scene eventually wandered through by Laetitia herself. As she passes barefoot through a wood and bundled up through a cemetery, the images of nature’s riches take on a Tarkovskian resonance: an idyll from which we humans find ourselves at an unnatural remove. The chorus swells greater with each pass, and as Laetitia slowly sinks into the sea and through the woods, we consider the title: “Panser L’inacceptable” (“panser” meaning to bandage, or otherwise treat damage) — a headfirst dive into handling and healing past wounds.

Laetitia Sadier 2024 Tour Dates:

Sat. March 2 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
Mon. March 4 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall *
Tue. March 5 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza *
Wed. March 6 – Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret *
Fri. March 8 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court *
Sat. March 9 – Denver, CO @ Lost Lake *
Mon. March 11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club *
Tue. March 12 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle #
Wed. March 13 – Detroit, MI @ Third Man
Fri. March 15 – Toronto, ON @ Garrison
Sat. March 16 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
Wed. March 20 – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust ^
Thu. March 21 – Boston, MA @ Arts at the Armory ^
Fri. March 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s ^
Sat. March 23 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd ^
Mon. March 25 – Atlanta, GA @ The EARL
Tue. March 26 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room
Thu. March 28 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall Upstairs %
Fri. March 29 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada %
Sat. March 30 – Austin, TX @ Parish %
Tue. April 2 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge %
Wed. April 3 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s %
Thu. April 4 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon %
Fri. April 5 – Big Sur, CA @ Fernwood Tavern %
Mon. April 8 – San Juan, PR @ Club 77