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🎵 Saint Etienne (UK)
🎧 youtu.be/vZAajrxvDs4
🎧 open.spotify.com/artist/1N2FgBLehaq77UEdJhCt7f
Over the course of a long, successful career, Saint Etienne built their endlessly stylish sound around skillful sonic architecture, joyful plundering of a wide range of genres and songs that quite often show a surprising amount of emotional depth. Initially designed by the duo of Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs as a project with revolving vocalists, they set that notion aside once Sarah Cracknell joined. They based songs around startling samples and combined balanced, slick dancefloor tracks with heartbreaking ballads; they had a hit right away with 1991's Foxbase Alpha LP. Further albums and singles showed that the group had a magpie's eye on pop culture and musical trends, picking up shiny pieces of sound and combining them in fascinating ways. 1994's Tiger Bay delved into British folk melancholy, thick dubby bass, and real orchestras, 1998's Good Humor eschewed electronics in favor of warm Swedish indie pop sounds, and they delivered a harmony pop concept album with 2005's Tales from Turnpike House. By this time, Saint Etienne were well established as arbiters of style and taste, as Stanley and Wiggs pursued side careers as DJs and curators of compilations. The band settled into a groove of issuing top-notch albums made up equally of nostalgia and futuristic sounds, then in the early 2020s took a left turn into ambient pop with 2021's surprising sample-based I've Been Trying to Tell You and its more vocal-oriented companion, 2024's Night. They decided to fold up shop in 2025, but not before releasing one more stylish gem of an album, the unusually collaborator-filled International.
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