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Former Stereolab vocalist and solo artist Laetitia Sadier follows up 2012's Silencio - "as timelessly hip as a pair of Wayfarers or an Eames chair", reckons Pitchfork - with Something Shines, her third studio album. Sadier formed Stereolab with her then-boyfriend, guitarist Tim Gane, in 1990, performing "elegant deconstructions of capitalist economic evils in a voice that sounded like snogging Audrey Hepburn while occupying The Sorbonne" (BBC Music). Expect "gorgeous vocals" (The Guardian) that are "wistfully longing, as though always somehow standing on tiptoe, reaching for the prize at the back of the high shelf" (The Quietus).