Saint Etienne’s new album, International, is the group’s final album-length statement after a 35-year excursion through pop. A dreamlike drift with friends and collaborators, International features cameos from the higher echelons of pop – ’80s chart heroes, electro, acid house and all points in-between, from Vince Clarke to Nick Heyward, Confidence Man to Erol Alkan, Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Doves and Xenomania, through to the lesser-known but equally exhilarating Bradfordians Augustin Bousfield and Flash Cassette (an artist described as “sitting somewhere between Funkadelic and a SEGA Mega Drive”). Saint Etienne are the ’90s band who never left us, never imploded, and never adhered to clich&eactue;d excess. They are a testament to getting along, getting on with creating something new and, of course, getting away with it.
Note: The LP is initially available on orange bio-vinyl.
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