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- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Rock, Dance, Alternative
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Positive: 13 out of 14
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Mixed: 1 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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MagnetSaint Etienne's latest album is masterful: fanatically detailed, intelligent and swimming in lovely melodies and delicious electronic bleeps... easily one of the year's standout albums. [#46, p.90]
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They've made a dreamy set suffused with synth bleeps and strings, nodding to Eno, Abba, and U.K. electro-soul peers Everything but the Girl.
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There's still a warm heart beating under all this newly-assembled machinery.
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But unlike the band's overbearing forays into trip-hop and dub before, a new level of soul and texture emerge from Saint Etienne's neo-modernist stylings.
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There are moments of pop pleasure here, surrounded by spare, languid electronica sections, vaguely reminiscent of the High Llamas.
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SpinEvery twinkling ambient moment is remarkably humane.
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Saint Etienne has made an egregiously Cardigans-esque wrong turn, abandoning impeccable craft and Motown melodies for the breezy if aimless experimentation of its wildly uneven EPs.
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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johnjJul 21, 2007What a gorgeous and sophisticated pop album. Saint Etienne's best album, by far.
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robdMar 18, 2005Very good. Their most sonically adventurous effort since So tough, although it reuires more attention. One of their best.
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