I've Been Trying to Tell You: Powder Blue Vinyl

It's rare for a band to have a new idea after being together for five years, let alone thirty. That Saint Etienne not only had a brilliant idea but also made it come to life so fully and so beautifully... — AllMusic, September 2021, 4 and a half out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Nov 2021
Catalogue No: HVNLP196R
Label: Heavenly Recordings

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I've Been Trying to Tell You

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Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line? Marvin Hamlisch was not yet 30 when he wrote those words for the mouth of Barbra Streisand. Even then, Hamlisch was acutely aware that as a narrator of our own stories, the human memory is at best unreliable and at worst mendacious. That same awareness resonates through every bar, beat and breath of I've Been Trying To Tell You, the tenth studio album by Saint Etienne, The album, which is released in the first week of September and accompanied by a specially-made film directed by acclaimed fashion photographer Alasdair McLellan and sleeve notes from socialist writer Owen Hatherley, is made largely from samples and sounds drawn from the turn of the new century, a period that was topped and tailed by Labour's election victory and the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. "It's about memory," Bob explains, "and how it can fog and play tricks on you. Specifically, it's about the late Nineties, and current nostalgia for the Nineties."

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September 2021

It's rare for a band to have a new idea after being together for five years, let alone thirty. That Saint Etienne not only had a brilliant idea but also made it come to life so fully and so beautifully is nothing short of miraculous.

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