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Covers aside, this is the most personal music of Sadier's career, and a promising glimpse of what she can do on her own.
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The Trip is casual, low-stakes pop that is easy to live with.
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Where Stereolab's songwriting was tangential and detached, with lyrics arranged around the melody, Sadier's solo work is deeply reflective, her words at center stage.
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The Trip feels like an expansion into new territory. Without Gane and his spacey-cool affectations, Sadier is free to revel in warm, rich balladry.
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Caressed by gentle guitars and synths, her elegantly serene voice and airy melodies impart a sense of stubborn, reassuring endurance in the face of soul-crushing melancholy.
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The WireHer voice remains a beguiling instrument, but there's a sense that the attempt to ditch the kitsch and connect more directly is compromising the originality of her vision. [Oct 2010, p.60]
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With The Trip, she's split the difference, crafting a modestly arranged work that showcases a variety of strengths we already knew she had.
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Under The RadarOct 26, 2010This is a gentler, more serene affair, ad one that fits the tracks' ruminations on decidedly grave subject matters like a glove. [Fall 2010, p.68]