Finisterre [Extended Edition] [2 CD]

Finisterre [Extended Edition] [2 CD]

by Saint Etienne
Finisterre [Extended Edition] [2 CD]

Finisterre [Extended Edition] [2 CD]

by Saint Etienne

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Overview

A return or a retread? Regardless of where you stand with this group as a fan (whether you detest Good Humor and Sound of Water or not), it's a bit of both. Those who've been waiting nearly a decade for the group to return to the messy but masterful patchwork anti-formula formula of the first three albums should be happy with this one. Like So Tough and Foxbase Alpha, the flow of the album is charmingly disjointed and seemingly made up of tangents -- albeit the kind of tangents for which most pop groups would happily exchange their Sarah discographies in order to call just one their own. In that sense, Finisterre is a return, forsaking the unified approaches taken on both Good Humor and Sound of Water. But the album resembles what many longtime fans would call a blatant return -- a return in lieu of new ideas (to borrow). The group's bright and shimmery dance-pop instincts are practically oozing out of one-third of these songs, though none of them quite scale the heights of the group's best material. If another third of the album didn't sound like it could've only been made in the wake of the electro (not electro) revival, it could've been released at any point during the latter half of the '90s. The remainder of the album, along with some of the electro-leaning material, mines melancholy and occasionally dark territories. In fact, there are no sweeping string arrangements, no delicately strummed acoustic guitars, and nary a whistle-worthy melody within the album's last four songs. Still, Saint Etienne remain England's best pop group -- they only look bad when they're compared to themselves, and this album, for all its shortcomings, has a handful of moments capable of making you think that they are the best pop group to have ever existed. [Released in 2017, the two-CD Extended Edition of Finisterre duplicated the album's 2010 double-disc reissue, which added a second disc of stray tracks, songs from singles and EPs, and four previously unreleased songs.] ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date: 06/30/2017
Label: Heavenly
UPC: 5414939956829
Rank: 75490

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Action
  2. Amateur
  3. Language Lab
  4. Soft Like Me
  5. Summer Isle
  6. Stop and Think It Over
  7. Shower Scene
  8. The Way We Live Now
  9. New Thing
  10. B92
  11. The More You Know
  12. Finisterre

Disc 2

  1. Primrose Hill
  2. Anderson Unbound
  3. Seven Summers
  4. Gimp Crises
  5. Abby I Hardly Knew You
  6. So Mystified
  7. White Dress
  8. Time and Tide
  9. Shock Corridor
  10. Stop and Think It Over [Kid Loco Mix]
  11. Mountain Rain
  12. Queen of Polythene
  13. Ballade de Saint Etienne
  14. Stevie
  15. Get It Together Again
  16. Fascination
  17. There There My Brigadier

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Saint Etienne   Primary Artist
Tim Keegan   Guest Artist
Nathan Bennett   Guest Artist
Wildflower   Guest Artist
Sarah Churchill   Guest Artist

Technical Credits

Si-Cut.db   Producer
Lee Hazlewood   Composer
Sarah Cracknell   Composer
Luke Gifford   Engineer,Producer
Mark Perry   Liner Notes
Nick Coler   Composer
Aim   Producer
Brian Wilson   Composer
Kid Loco   Remixing,Additional Production
Ian Catt   Composer,Producer
Saint Etienne   Producer
Andy Turner   Mixing,Engineer,Mixing,Engineer
Mr Joshua   Producer
Gerard Johnson   Engineer
Brian Higgins   Composer,Producer
Douglas Benford   Producer
Guy Davie   Mastering
Mister Joshua   Producer
Bob Stanley   Composer
Pete Wiggs   Composer,Engineer
Isabel Waidner   Producer
Mark Waterfield   Composer,Producer
Paul "PK" Kelly   Cover Design
Lawrence Oakley   Mixing,Composer,Producer,Programming
Derek Cracknell   Composer
Waterfield   Composer
Tim Powell   Composer
Vanessa George   Composer
Ben Edwards   Producer
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