After 35 years recording collectively, Saint Etienne have introduced that their thirteenth album, Worldwide, might be their final.
Co-produced with Tim Powell (previously of Xenomania), the album might be launched on Heavenly Recordings this September and options collaborations with Erol Alkan, Vince Clarke, Nick Heyward, Confidence Man’s Janet Planet and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital.
To coincide with the announcement, the band has shared Glad, the primary single to be taken from the album.
Co-written and produced with Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers, Glad is a glowing piece of uplifting pop, and extremely catchy. The tune additionally options Jez Williams from Doves on guitar. Speaking in regards to the observe, Sarah Cracknell mentioned: “We requested Tom if he had any songs in progress that may go well with Saint Etienne and he despatched a backing observe that he’d been engaged on with Jez from Doves. We fell in love with it immediately and the highest line melody and phrases for Glad got here straightforward.”
Pete Wiggs added: “The tune is about taking pleasure in on a regular basis issues like nature and the outside when life is in any other case getting you down.”
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Going Out With A Bang
The group aren’t splitting up as such – they nonetheless stay the very best of pals – however they don’t really feel like they wish to go on perpetually and needed to exit with a bang. Worldwide follows scorching on the heels of The Evening – launched final November.
Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs have recognized one another since childhood and began the group in 1990 with their traditional cowl of Neil Younger’s Solely Love Can Break Your Coronary heart. Sarah Cracknell joined for his or her third single Nothing Can Cease Us and the Foxbase Alpha album in 1991. Since then they’ve branched out into movies, books and curation, and have become artists in residence on the Southbank Centre. The group merely feels it’s now time to attract a line underneath new recordings.
Worldwide may be very totally different in type and strategy to The Evening, however each information are pure Saint Etienne. For Worldwide, the trio determined to ask pals, heroes and contemporaries to collaborate with them. That listing included Confidence Man, who they found had been St Et superfans after they performed collectively at Kite Pageant in 2022. Model New Me seems like a rebooted 1991 gem – Nothing Can Cease Us meets Groove Is In The Coronary heart – and options Sarah duetting with Confidence Man’s Janet Planet.
Different collaborators embrace Erol Alkan (on Candy Melodies), Vince Clarke (Two Lovers), a duet with Nick Heyward (The Go Betweens) and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital (Take Me To The Pilot) in addition to a brace co-written and produced with Tim Powell of Xenomania (Dancing Coronary heart and He’s Gone).
The closing observe on Worldwide is a tear jerker, reflecting on the place they’ve been and who they’ve turn into over three and a half a long time – the group say goodbye to their followers, on document, for the very Final Time.
Tracklisting
Glad
Dancing Coronary heart
The Go Betweens
Candy Melodies
Save It For A Wet Day
Fade
Model New Me
Take Me To The Pilot
Two Lovers
Why Are You Calling
He’s Gone
The Final Time
Saint Etienne are planning reside dates for 2026, and Worldwide is launched on 5 September by way of Heavenly Recordings. Pre-save right here