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 ...

Blur are not the only Britpoppers with a new album in the works. Saint Etienne will release their eighth studio album, Words & Music, on May 21 in the UK. (They’re still working out US distribution.) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The British indie-pop trio is not breaking up, but would like “to go out with a bang” with new album International ...

The band plans to follow the release of 'International' with a farewell tour highlighting its greatest hits. In the meantime, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...