Description
English band SAINT ETIENNE, considered one of the most prolific of their generation, release their new album, Home Counties, on Heavenly. Home Counties, a term used to describe the English counties located around London, features sixteen songs that speak of life in these places. The album is an ode to the “outsiders,” the suburbanites of London.
Three of the Beatles lived here, as did the Prodigy, the Zombies, Depeche Mode, Dr. Feelgood, and, of course, SAINT ETIENNE.
Produced by Shawn Lee with support from Augustus (Kero Kero Bonito), Carwyn Ellis (Colorama, Edwyn Collins), Robin Bennett (The Dreaming Spires), Richard X (Girls On Top / Black Melody), and their longtime collaborator, Gerard Johnson (Denim, Yes), the album was recorded in London over a six-week period. It opens with “Something New,” and a teenage girl sneaking out the front door after spending the night outside. He finishes with ‘Whyteleafe’, a track that imagines what might have happened if David Bowie had remained David Jones of Bromley, stuck in an office for work. SAINT ETIENNE still believes in pop, and Home Counties is for the band a return to the basics, to the sounds and working methods that so many people fell in love with in the early 1990s.
For fans of: Pet Shop Boys, Goldfrapp, Erasure, Primal Scream, Bananarama.
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