Saint Etienne singer Sarah Cracknell is set to release Red Kite on June 15 via Cherry Red. It’s only her second-ever solo record, and first since 1997’s Lipslide. Here, she trades her band’s dancepop ...

Is pop music something you grow up and grow out of? No way, say Saint Etienne – time just adds to its power In 2005, when Saint Etienne's last studio album Tales from Turnpike House was released, ...

Saint Etienne, the greatest ever band in pop – you could argue with me, but you’d lose – are finished. C’est fini, as Timothee Chalamet (fan of the band’s Ligue 2 namesake) might say. Earlier this ...

“Once you’ve been away from your hometown for some time, it takes quite a long time I think, you start to look back on it quite fondly,” Cracknell tells me on the phone from the band’s practice space.

The band, beefed up for the occasion, opt for a festive greatest hits set as they caper into their hometown debut gig Saint Etienne are frequently sublime, but they can also be ridiculous. It is ...

Sarah Cracknell has joined musicOMH for a chat about Saint Etienne’s new album – their last as a band. International is their well-publicised swansong, a band album but one extended to include ...

Saint Etienne have responded to a Winona Ryder interview in which she said the band “rescued” her during a difficult period in her life. “There was a great band called Saint Etienne that I loved,” she ...

U.K. indie-pop trio Saint Etienne has gained a cult-like, if increasingly large, following in the United States over the past two decades — enough to lure the band back Stateside for the first time… ...

The English electronic pop band's first proper album since 2005 is a sterling affirmation that relating music to your life doesn't have to grow more difficult as you get older. All this looking back ...

It’s seven years since Saint Etienne last put out a new record, a couple of compilations filling the gap in the interim, and Words and Music by Saint Etienne, their eighth, suggests that no-one feels ...

Audio for this feature is no longer available. For more than two decades, Saint Etienne has embodied the art of understated pop. Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley's synthesizers and drum machines have been ...