Tiger Bay
Originally released in 1994, 'Tiger Bay' was Saint Etienne's third long player and their second Top 10 album. It took the group into a new place by mixing traditional folk melodies with modern electronica. They worked with Underworld, Shara Nelson, Stephen Duffy, arranger David Whitaker, and Birmingham neo-dubsters Original Rockers to create a windblown but lush record, echoing its oil painting cover.
The album has been remastered by the band and expanded to 2 discs. The second disc contains 7 previously unheard bonus tracks including an abandoned sequel to 'Mario's Cafe' called 'Black Horse Latitudes' (set in the evening, in a Tufnell Park pub), and the perky 'Wedding Of Stacy Dorning' which looked forward to the sunshine pop of 1998's 'Good Humor'.
The Deluxe Edition??features extensive sleevenotes from the band's original PR Robin Turner.
Finisterre
'Finisterre' was Saint Etienne's 6th studio album and was originally released in 2002. The album was a love/hate letter to London, with its iconic image of the collapsed Ronan Point on the cover, recorded at a time of mass demonstrations against the government and just after folk hero Ken Livingstone had been elected Mayor. Alternately harsh and gentle, electronic and thrumming, it included the nu-disco call-to-arms single 'Action'.
The album has been remastered by the band and now comes with a second disc of 17 tracks including 4 previously unreleased gems such as the near-mythical Dr Who-sampling 'There There My Brigadier', and a tribute to the mysterious Aqualad who resides under the Thames, waiting for his moment to take the city back from the financiers and to open up the Post Office Tower's revolving restaurant once again.
The Deluxe Edition??features extensive sleevenotes by Jude Rogers
Tiger Bay
Disc One
01. Urban Clearway
02. Former Lover
03. Hug My Soul
04. Like A Motorway
05. On The Shore
06. Marble Lions
07. Pale Movie
08. Cool Kids Of Death
09. Tankerville / Western Wind
10. The Boy Scouts Of America
Disc Two
01. Urban Clearway (Demo)
02. Black Horse Latitude
03. I Buy American Records
04. Hate Your Drug
05. You Know I'll Miss You When I'm Gone
06. Sushi Rider
07. Hug My Soul (Demo)
08. The Wedding of Stacy Dorning
09. Deborah's French Feast
10. Western Wind (Demo)
11. Pale Movie (Demo)
12. La Poupee Qui Fait Non (No No No)
13. Highgate Road Incident
14. My Christmas Prayer
15. I Was Born On Christmas Day
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Disc One
01. Action
02. Amateur
03. Language Lab
04. Soft Like Me
05. Summerisle
06. Stop and Think It Over
07. Shower Scene
08. The Way We Live Now
09. New Thing
10. B92
11. The More You Know
12. Finisterre
Disc Two
01. Primrose Hill
02. Anderson Unbound
03. Seven Summers
04. Gimp Crisis
05. Abby I Hardly Knew You
06. So Mystified
07. White Dress
08. Time And Tide
09. Shock Corridor
10. Stop & Think It Over
11. Mountain Rain
12. Queen of Polythene
13. Ballade de Saint Etienne
14. Stevie
15. Got It Together Again
16. Fascination
17. There There My Brigadier
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