Saint Etienne

Key tracks:

Nothing Can Stop Us
Spring
He's On The Phone
Side Streets

Label: Heavenly

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House magic, French disco bleeps and beats, Swedish flair and German experimentation yet quintessentially English.

It's always nice to see pop visionaries link up with one another. Earlier this year, crafty dance-pop vets Saint Etienne reissued Foxbase Alpha, their gorgeously plasticy 1991 debut. The group recruited Annie/M.I.A. producer and conceptual-pop kindred spirit Richard X (who produced this year's "Method of Modern Love") to remix the entire album, turning it into a brand new beast called Foxbase Beta.

Throughout their extraordinary career they have pointed to Italian house magic, French disco bleeps and beats, Swedish flair and German experimentation yet remained quintessentially English. Hugely inspired by 60’s cinema, their music has in turn been used in film and TV from Paul Kelly’s Finisterre, Pedro Almodovar’s Volver and on Grey’s Anatomy.

Releases we represent:

Tiger Bay | album | Heavenly/Creation | 1994
Foxbase Beta | Album | Artist | 2009
London Conversations The Best Of Saint Etienne | Album | Heavenly | 2009
Fox Base Beta | Album | Heavenly | 2009
A Glimpse of Stocking | Album | 2010
Tales From Turnpike House | Album | 2005

Quotes:

"These ten tracks come with such an earnest passion for the timeless pop form that any snobbery is punctured with an arrow drawn straight from Cupid's quiver." NME

"The songs flow effortlessly along, and even the instrumental tracks are fully developed." Pitchfork

"As languorous and fuzzy around the edges as a summer afternoon." Q

"Suffused with synth bleeps and strings, nodding to Eno, Abba, and U.K. electro-soul peers Everything but the Girl." Entertainment Weekly

"Masterful: fanatically detailed, intelligent and swimming in lovely melodies and delicious electronic bleeps." Magnet