Saint Etienne - Finisterre

Review by David Merryweather

So what does the new Saint Etienne album sound like? First of all it isn’t “kitsch”, it isn’t “ironic”, it isn’t “frothy”, “lightweight” or “bubblegum” or any of those other terms that furrow-browed, sneer-lipped rock-crits like to wave Saint Etienne away with before going back to their serious, proper, canonical»