Home counties

"The unhurried new album from English indie pop trio Saint Etienne centers on a theme of geography. Across 19 tracks, the band offers a day-in-the-life snapshot of their native London commuter towns ... Saint Etienne never identified as Britpop, and fair enough. But with Home Counties, they give us a glimpse of what cutting-edge '90s pop could have become if it had evolved into adult music with a more earthbound point of view".

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"Saint Etienne's music always has a firm sense of time and place, somewhere around London, sometime between 1963 and yesterday. So it's no surprise that the trio have finally written a whole album about the towns they grew up in. If the concept might seem a bit Brexit, the execution is flawless and winningly witty".

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"De stilfulde briter har gennem årene effektivt mikset 1960ernes psykedeliske pop og frankofile easy listening med elementer af 1970ernes disko og 1980ernes sarte drømmepop og synthtunge elektropop. Deres delikate og til tider kitschede genrecocktail bindes sammen af sangerinden Sarah Cracknells døsige vokal. Bundniveauet er vanen tro højt på trekløverets 9. album »Home Counties«, deres første udgivelse i fem år. Her cementerer de med iørefaldende sange som den disko-file funkfest »Dive«, den beattunge »Underneath The Apple Tree« og den muntre »Train Drivers In Eyeliner« deres forsatte evne til at kreere kløgtige og sprudlende popbaskere".

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