SAINT ETIENNE

I’ve Been Trying To Tell You HEAVENLY

8/10

Trio drift back to the ’90s on contemplative 10th album. By Sharon O’Connell

IF, as LP Hartley’s novel has it, “the past is a foreign country”, then Saint Etienne have earned frequent flyer status. From their 1991 debut, , which leaned on UK club culture, and ’60s pop, through 2005’s , a David Essex-featuring, indie-disco set themed around a fictional high-rise, to their ninth album , a titular paeanor train-station recordings has given their impressionistic songs the stamp of lived experience while transporting listeners Somewhere Else.