Saint Etienne are about to bow out after thirty five years of making records. Sarah, Bob and Pete are releasing their final album, International, in September and ahead of it put out a song last week, the irresistible, uptempo, Northern Soul on synths sounds of Glad...
Glad was co- written by Chemical Brother Tom Rowlands and has Dove Jez Goodwin on guitar but it's Saint Etienne through and through, a song celebrating taking joy in small things.
Back in February they released some remixes of Alone Together from last year's The Night album. The Hove Lawns Sunset Mix is a Balearic joy, lazy drums and summer horns. They did a vinyl release, pressing up the number that were ordered. My copy has never arrived, lost somewhere in the postal system rather annoyingly.
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Shame about them calling it a day but they did say they haven't actually split up...sounds a bit confusing to me! Glad sounds terrific though, a real return to form. Maybe they'll still play live occasionally rather than make any new music...
That's what I thought Nick, they'll continue to play gigs and be active but there'll be no more new music
Swiss Adam
Sad news about that disc not arriving. I had something similar but chased the PO and eventually it turned up. Wasn't easy worth a try.
That's excellent, looking forward to hearing more; a shame that there'll be no more new material but perhaps understandable at the same time. I do hope they'll still perform now and then, though, and that I'll get a chance to see them before too much more time passes and we're all drawing our pensions!
Ah, that's a real shame. I found their last two albums to be their best in decades.
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