#Saint Etienne

AF 2021 IN REVIEWOur Favorite Albums and Singles of The Year

If you went into 2021 with high expectations, you weren’t alone. Even if it was hard to feel optimistic this time last year, it certainly seemed as if things could get no worse. Live music did return, after all – though with the appearance of Delta, and now Omicron, the joyful noise comes with a...

Lindsey Rhoades

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Saint Etienne Samples Y2K Pop and Name-drops Racehorses on I’ve Been Trying to Tell You LP

K.’s COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, Saint Etienne had been working on a new album inside a small, London recording studio. The album (which, by singer Sarah Cracknell’s estimates, was about two-thirds complete) was put on hold with the onset of the...

Liz Ohanesian

Why It's Time to Revisit 2000 Saint Etienne Album Sound of Water

It was the fifth full-length album for the British trio of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs and it was an ever-so-slight departure for a band that had spent the 1990s at the intersection of indie pop...

Liz Ohanesian