Saint Etienne have introduced introduced a brand new album, and so they’re saying it’s their last one. International, the British indie-pop trio’s follow-up to The Night, is out September 5 by way of Heavenly. The brand new album is led by the one “Glad,” which was co-written and co-produced with the Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and options Doves’ Jez Williams on guitar. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Scrub, under.
“We requested Tom if he had any songs in progress that may go well with Saint Etienne, and he despatched a backing observe that he’d been engaged on with Jez from Doves,” Saint Etienne vocalist Sarah Cracknell mentioned in an announcement. “We fell in love with it immediately, and the highest line melody and phrases for ‘Glad’ got here simple.”
Pete Wiggs added, “The music is about taking pleasure in on a regular basis issues like nature and the outside when life is in any other case getting you down.”
Together with Tom Rowlands and Jez Williams, Worldwide has contributions from Confidence Man, Erol Alkan, Vince Clarke, Nick Heyward, Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll, and Xenomania’s Tim Powell.
Fashioned in London in 1990, by childhood associates Wiggs and Bob Stanley, Saint Etienne put out two singles that very same yr—“Kiss and Make Up” and their cowl of Neil Younger’s “Solely Love Can Break Your Coronary heart”—earlier than they added Cracknell for “Nothing Can Cease Us.” All three songs appeared on the band’s 1991 debut, Foxbase Alpha, which kicked off a decade-defining run of albums, most notable amongst them 1993’s sophomore effort So Tough, 1994’s Tiger Bay, and 1998’s Good Humor.
Wiggs, Stanley, and Cracknell turned beloved for his or her mix of twee indie-pop and up to date membership sound, which balanced an alluringly cosmopolitan sheen with attraction, wit, and approachability. After 2005’s Tales From Turnpike House, Saint Etienne took an prolonged break from recording. Since their return, in 2012, with Words and Music by Saint Etienne, nevertheless, the band has constantly put out new data, amongst them Home Counties (2017) and I’ve Been Trying to Tell You (2021).
In response to a press launch, “The group aren’t splitting up as such—they nonetheless stay the most effective of associates after 35 years recording collectively—however they don’t really feel like they need to go on eternally and needed to exit with a bang.”
Examine Saint Etienne’s Foxbase Alpha in “The 25 Best Indie-Pop Albums of the 1990s.”
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Worldwide:
01 Glad
02 Dancing Coronary heart
03 The Go Betweens [ft. Nick Heyward]
04 Candy Melodies
05 Save It for a Wet Day
06 Fade
07 Model New Me [ft. Confidence Man]
08 Take Me to the Pilot
09 Two Lovers
10 Why Are You Calling
11 He’s Gone
12 The Final Time
