Saint Etienne
Finisterre
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Saint Etienne

Finisterre
Sealed 2017 UK Pressing Housed In A Faithfully Reproduced Textured Jacket Complete With Original Artwork. Custom Hype Sticker On Shrink. Includes Download Code. "A Return Or A Retread? Regardless Of Where You Stand With This Group As A Fan (Whether You Detest Good Humor And Sound Of Water Or Not), It's A Bit Of Both. Those Who've Been Waiting Nearly A Decade For The Group To Return To The Messy But Masterful Patchwork Anti-formula Formula Of The First Three Albums Should Be Happy With This One. Like So Tough And Foxbase Alpha, The Flow Of The Album Is Charmingly Disjointed And Seemingly Made Up Of Tangents -- Albeit The Kind Of Tangents For Which Most Pop Groups Would Happily Exchange Their Sarah Discographies In Order To Call Just One Their Own. In That Sense, Finisterre Is A Return, Forsaking The Unified Approaches Taken On Both Good Humor And Sound Of Water. But The Album Resembles What Many Longtime Fans Would Call A Blatant Return -- A Return In Lieu Of New Ideas (To Borrow). The Group's Bright And Shimmery Dance-pop Instincts Are Practically Oozing Out Of One-third Of These Songs, Though None Of Them Quite Scale The Heights Of The Group's Best Material. If Another Third Of The Album Didn't Sound Like It Could've Only Been Made In The Wake Of The Electro (Not Electro) Revival, It Could've Been Released At Any Point During The Latter Half Of The '90s. The Remainder Of The Album, Along With Some Of The Electro-leaning Material, Mines Melancholy And Occasionally Dark Territories. In Fact, There Are No Sweeping String Arrangements, No Delicately Strummed Acoustic Guitars, And Nary A Whistle-worthy Melody Within The Album's Last Four Songs. Still, Saint Etienne Remain England's Best Pop Group -- They Only Look Bad When They're Compared To Themselves, And This Album, For All Its Shortcomings, Has A Handful Of Moments Capable Of Making You Think That They Are The Best Pop Group To Have Ever Existed." AMG - Andy Kellman.

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  • Artist: Saint Etienne
  • Genre: Pop
  • Type: New Import
  • Label: Heavenly
  • Catalog ID: HVNLP74
  • Condition:
    Vinyl:
    Mint (M)
    Sleeve:
    Near Mint (NM or M-)
  • Country ID: UK
  • SKU: 176867

Track List

A1 Action
A2 Amateur
A3 Language Lab
A4 Soft Like Me
A5 Summerisle
A6 Stop And Think It Over
B10 B92
B11 The More You Know
B12 Finisterre
B7 Shower Scene
B8 The Way We Live Now
B9 New Thing