Saint Etienne have released I’ve Been Trying To Tell You on this New Music Friday – have a listen on Live4ever via Spotify.
Saint Etienne used samples and sounds plundered between 1997-2001 for their new album, their first driven by this kind of sonic template since So Tough all the way back in 1993 – it was a ‘really refreshing experience’ and ‘such fun’ according to Sarah Cracknell.
“My starting point was an interpretation of my memories from the time I first started to listen to Saint Etienne’s music,” Pete Wiggs said. “Of course, it is an interpretation of what I was doing then while looking back at it now.”
“At that time, I was a bored teenager in a village near Doncaster, South Yorkshire; it was a place where very little happened. I now look back at that time as something quite idyllic – even the boredom seems idyllic – and a big part of its soundtrack was Saint Etienne.”