There’s no getting around it: Even as she’s embarked on a successful solo career, the dulcet voice of Laetitia Sadier will forever be associated with her avant-pop group Stereolab. It’s a voice too distinct and singular to be mistaken, no matter the context. Luckily, Sadier—even when collaborating with artists like Odd Future rapper Tyler, the Creator and R&B/hip-hop producer Adrian Younge—has never been bothered by this fact. On her new album, Finding Me Finding You, she doesn’t run from Stereolab comparisons. The result is her finest, most collaborative effort since the end of her former collective. The record’s Tropicália flourishes, motorik minimalism, and lounge-ready sloganeering fit Sadier like a broken-in bomber jacket. She gels with her newly christened band, the Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble, with an easy grace. Ever mining the gray area between the personal and political, Sadier crouches her ideological concerns in the language of relationships. “I don’t want what the taker wants,” she sings on “Deep Background,” and on “Love Captive,” a duet with Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, the two harmonize, “Can I love you and stay free?” Much of the album posits that, yeah, that sort of thing could be worked out. “Psychology Active (Finding You)” makes desire a plain, understated goal (“To feel good above all else/ Is my preference”), and the Brazilian sway of opener “Undying Love for Humanity” effortlessly evokes the sentiment expressed by its title. In these tense times, Sadier’s humanistic optimism sounds as enticing as it does radical.