Audio for this feature is no longer available. For more than two decades, Saint Etienne has embodied the art of understated pop. Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley's synthesizers and drum machines have been ...

Long-running UK group Saint Etienne have had a great year, all things considered. They released the hypnotic I’ve Been Trying to Tell You, one of the best and most unusual albums of their 30-year ...

British indie-pop trio Saint Etienne have announced a new album, International, which they are describing as their final album, and shared its lead single, “Glad.” “Glad” features Jez Williams of ...

Vocalist Sarah Cracknell waved her white feather boa at the crowd while introducing one of the final songs of her group’s Saturday night set at the Fonda in Hollywood. “This is the first song I ever ...

Saint Etienne have dedicated their new 'Best Of' album to London, calling it their "spiritual home". The indie-dance collective claimed that the city has been the inspiration behind the 20 years they ...

If there is one person who knows how to put a compilation together, it’s Jon Savage. Following 2021’s futurist assemblage Do You Have The Force? and 1972-1976: All Our Times Have Come, he’s moved on a ...

Saint Etienne will release their first new album since 2005, Words and Music by Saint Etienne, May 21 via Universal. Songwriter and keyboardist (and former Pitchfork contributor) Bob Stanley says the ...

Cosmopolitan British dance-pop pioneers Saint Etienne have a new album called Words And Music By Saint Etienne coming out later this month, and we've already heard the early tracks "Tonight" and ...

In the five years since 2012’s Words And Music, where they deconstructed the experience of being a pop fan through the medium of brilliant, sparkling pop, the three members of Saint Etienne have been ...

Playing on Prefix is a feature on KCRW’s Music Blog in which writers from the eclectic music site Prefix hip you to what’s coming out of their computer speakers each week. From adolescence to young ...

As Sarah Cracknell dreamily sings on the statement-of-intent opening track "Over The Border", as a teenager she knew she should have been studying for her mocks but instead "just wanted to listen to ...

On their eighth album, quintessentially English pop group Saint Etienne celebrate obsessive teenage pop music fandom and, more broadly, as singer Sarah Cracknell puts it on spoken word opener Over The ...