Words and Music by Saint Etienne

Submitted by Matthew Baker on 25 March 2013 - 1:47pm

Panelists had to pick from Guardian's Top 20 albums of 2012

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Artist:

Saint Etienne

album-ID:

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Year:

2 012

Release-year:

0000

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Track-listing:

Over The Border*I’ve Got Your Music*Heading For The Fair*Last Days Of Disco*Tonight*Answer Song*Record Doctor*Popular*Twenty Five Years*DJ*When I Was Seventeen*I Threw It All Away*Haunted Jukebox

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Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_49

Now-num:

2 013

Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

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Short-title:

wordsAndMusic

nominator-ID:

u_2

Meeting-date:

Thursday, 18 April 2013

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Wikipedia-URL:

Words_and_Music_by_Saint_Etienne

Spotify-link-type:

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Metacritic-URL:

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Discogs-URL:

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Allmusic-URL:

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BBC-URL:

hfcg

rdio-URL:

Saint_Etienne/album/Words_And_Music_By_Saint_Etienne

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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Uber catchy pop from 'the Et'

A band this long in the tooth shouldn't really sound as good as they do. I think Bob Stanley is a bit of a legend, and who doesn't like Sarah Cracknell? Also a very English/London band for people of a certain age. This albuim manages to eulogise pop music whilst not wallowing in nostalgia.
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Glyn Lewis

An Indian Summer for Saint Etienne

3-5-8-13

1-12

I can see from this album why people are a bit indifferent to them and I was reminded why I found some of their recent albums not too convincing but overall this does feel like a bit of a return to form for a band who have done some great things. There's a sequence of songs through the middle of the album that is very strong and fairly indicative of the sort of lightweight dancey pop rock crossover they manage to do so well. It does get a little bit twee and unconvincing in a few places and maybe lacks variety in approach but there's enough in the songwriting to make it an enjoyable listen.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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Neil Hornsey

Europop

For some reason I expected greater things from this, perhaps something with a little more cutting edge and electronic interest. What we have is straight up Europop that could have come from the Stock Aitken and Waterman factory. Even if the general intention was to make an album about pop nostalgia, they could still have made it sound interesting.

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