“Perhaps the greatest achievement of Laetitia Sadier's career, reached alongside ex-partner and Stereolab co-founder Tim Gane, was the invention of vibes. Okay, maybe “invention” is too strong a word, but Stereolab certainly managed a synthesis between many accepted layers of cool, from the Velvet Underground’s two chord drug drone to ‘60s French pop crossed with the German kosmische Musik of the ‘”