{"id":3605,"date":"2025-06-03T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2025-06-04T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:03:00","slug":"saint-etienne-international-5sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/saint-etienne-international-5sep\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Saint Etienne \u2013 <em>International<\/em>, out 5 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Saint Etienne - International\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/saint-etienne-international\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Saint Etienne - International\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2509\/SaintEtienne.jpg\" alt=\"Saint Etienne - International\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saint Etienne<\/strong>\u2019s new album, <strong><em>International<\/em><\/strong>, is the group\u2019s final album-length statement after a 35-year excursion through pop. A dreamlike drift with friends and collaborators, <em>International<\/em> features cameos from the higher echelons of pop \u2013 \u201980s 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 \u201csitting somewhere between Funkadelic and a SEGA Mega Drive\u201d). Saint Etienne are the \u201990s band who never left us, never imploded, and never adhered to clich&amp;eactue;d excess. They are a testament to getting along, getting on with creating something new and, of course, getting away with it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on <strong>orange bio-vinyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Saint Etienne - International\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/saint-etienne-international\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Saint Etienne\u2019s new album, International, is the group\u2019s 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 \u2013 \u201980s chart heroes, electro, acid house and all points in-between, from Vince Clarke to Nick Heyward, Confidence Man to Erol&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,929,194],"class_list":["post-3605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-saint-etienne","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3606,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}