Saint Etienne – I’ve Been Trying To Tell You (CD/DVD)

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Title : Saint Etienne – I’ve Been Trying To Tell You. Format : CD. Label : Heavenly Recordings. Cat Num : HVNLP196CD. Barcode : 5400863054670.

Release Date : September 10th 2021

Saint Etienne have always understood that pop music is the nearest thing we have to time travel, the closest we can get to breathing the air of a different time. On this album, they take that theory to it’s logical conclusion. I’ve Been Trying To Tell You uses sounds and samples from 1997-2001, evoking the folk memory of the period by using and twisting recordings from the time, re-working them into new songs. For the first time, Saint Etienne didn’t record together in a studio. The album was completed remotely, in Hove (Pete), Oxford (Sarah) and Bradford (Bob, in collaboration with film and TV composer Gus Bousfield, who contributes to a number of tracks). An accompanying film by Alasdair McLellan is a slow-motion travelogue that takes in “a lifetime’s worth” of locations. The dreamlike mood of the album, and the film, is a statement in itself: namely that memory is a largely fictionalized product of the human mind, rather than a reliable record.

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Title : Saint Etienne – I’ve Been Trying To Tell You. Format : CD/DVD. Label : Heavenly Recordings. Cat Num : HVNLP196CDVD. Barcode : 5400863054687.

Release Date : September 10th 2021

SThe London trio return this autumn with their 10th studio release, ‘I’ve Been Trying To Tell You’, an album about optimism, youth and the late Nineties. The album release is accompanied by a sumptuous film of the same name directed by acclaimed photographer Alasdair McLellan. The film premieres in September alongside The Films Of Saint Etienne – a special weekend of screenings and Q&As at BFI Southbank. A live tour follows in November. Without wanting to show our workings, ‘I’ve Been Trying To Tell You’ is about memory and how it plays tricks on you. Given that no one has felt very optimistic about anything (except Leicester City fans) for the last seven or eight years, it’s easy to look back at the late nineties and remember it as an endless, carefree rave-up with Labour in power, the Spice Girls at Number One, and everyone optimistic about the future. But of course it wasn’t really like that, we’ve just chosen to forget the bits we don’t want to remember. So, ‘I’ve Been Trying To Tell You’ is about the fog of memory – that’s the sound of the album.” – Bob Stanley ‘I’ve Been Trying To Tell You’ is available as a CD + DVD edition (which includes the album, the film and sleeve notes from socialist writer Owen Hatherley)

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