I couldn´t stop listening it... and smiling

This is the album for my next lazy days on a beach in the southest italian island... (I also bought Cooder's Chavez Ravine: wonderful).

Saint Etienne = pure pop perfection !

the greatest after a decade

glistening, amazing, shivering!!!!

7 words... I'm in love with Sarah Cracknell:)

This 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.

Stanley and Wiggs give me the horn.

The 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.

One 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.

Stiff, stodgy, and heavily dated, this album is perfect proof that they should've retired years ago.

I 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!

I 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.

fantastic pop cd! what good pop should be like in 2005.

Life as we, 30something, knows it :) Lightning can (still) strike twice for us...

Their best. 'Nuff said.

Very good, very smooth with a couple of standouts. Q Magazine should be dumped from Metacritic. Who writes this drivel?

With any dubt about it, this is the first conceptual album from Saint Etienne and the best. Ethereal, danceable, nocturnal.