I found this song lying around the internets. It’s a live version of “Light That Will Cease to Fail”, performed by Stereolab at the Great American Music Hall, in San Francisco, CA, on 11/24/97. I don’t know much about Stereolab, unfortunately, other than this being a very pretty song. But like, a really, really pretty song! It’s another one of those songs that you listen to driving in your car, blasting it, and singing along. It’s almost like a lullaby I heard in another life. It’s layers of grace upon tranquility upon buzzy guitars and drums that push along through the splendors and squalor of life. It’s the light that will cease to fail!
Laetitia Sadier from Stereolab just recently appeared on Atlas Sound’s new album “Logos”, which is Bradford Cox’s (from Deerhunter) solo project. She takes over the song “Quick Canal”–it’s a sprawling and ethereal song that hangs in the atmosphere, until the bass and beat come in, along with Sadier’s voice, that drives the song home along an imaginary highway . Again, it’s a very pretty song that shows Stereolab and Sadier’s influence on Cox’s music, as well as a mutual respect that each artist has for one another. The first song on “Logos” is called “The Light That Failed”, which is perhaps, an answer or compliment to the Stereolab song. Love it!
mp3: Stereolab, The Light That Will Cease To Fail (Live 11/24/97)
mp3: Atlas Sound featuring Laetitia Sadier, Quick Canal
