- Record Label: Savoy Jazz / Sanctuary
- Release Date: Jan 24, 2006
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 29
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Mixed: 2 out of 29
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Negative: 4 out of 29
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CoMonJun 23, 2005I couldn´t stop listening it... and smiling
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bartvanlJun 17, 2005Saint Etienne = pure pop perfection !
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[Anonymous]Jun 17, 2005the greatest after a decade
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seaneJun 19, 2005glistening, amazing, shivering!!!!
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DuncanMJun 23, 2005This is the sound of London on a sunny holiday weekend. This is such a happy, cool, charming record. It makes me smile every time I listen to it.
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BenSOct 23, 2005I bought Foxbase Alpha as a 15 year old in 1991, and now with this album they come up with a track like Teenage Winter that leaves me yearning to be back in that moment. This album is stunning and, I think, their best. Hope it's not the last.
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jasonsJun 17, 2005fantastic pop cd! what good pop should be like in 2005.
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RickOAug 26, 2005Their best. 'Nuff said.
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JaimeZMay 23, 2006With any dubt about it, this is the first conceptual album from Saint Etienne and the best. Ethereal, danceable, nocturnal.
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GaryWDec 19, 2005As usual Q Magazine talk a load of crap and nowadays are not very good at reviewing.. St Etiennes best album yet
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CalvinHobbesJun 30, 2005This is the album for my next lazy days on a beach in the southest italian island... (I also bought Cooder's Chavez Ravine: wonderful).
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FrantisekSJun 21, 20057 words... I'm in love with Sarah Cracknell:)
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CindySJan 31, 2006The UK release was great but the just-released US version on Savoy Jazz is even better. The album's low point "Relocate" was smartly dropped and 3 songs were added - all which are 1st rate St. Etienne. "Sound of Water" will probably always be my favorite record by them, but the US version of "Turnpike House" is just as excellent. The best album I have heard in months.
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KipKFeb 26, 2006One of my favorite bands, their music transcends sound only, their music is really about the way it makes you think and the feelings it evokes. A true soundtrack album. Not a lot of filter, some true gems including Stars Above Us, Sun In My Morning and Side Streets. A return to form after the stumble that was Finisterre.
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JeffTApr 10, 2006I admit, TFTH is not an easy listen. But oh, did it ever grow on me (Ok, well not the bizaare "Relocate" -- thank GOD it was removed from US version)!! Now it's one of my favorite albums of the year!
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ElectroPioneerJun 21, 2005Life as we, 30something, knows it :) Lightning can (still) strike twice for us...
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JasonLJan 31, 2006Very good, very smooth with a couple of standouts. Q Magazine should be dumped from Metacritic. Who writes this drivel?
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RobertHJan 26, 2006The import is worth getting for the bonus cd.
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WayneFJul 12, 2005Stanley and Wiggs give me the horn.
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ToddRFeb 7, 2006Stiff, stodgy, and heavily dated, this album is perfect proof that they should've retired years ago.
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Their most contemporarily relevant and best album since 'Fox Base Alpha.'
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Overall the LP falters too often.
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This is gorgeous record that starts great and gets better with each additional hearing.