Saint Etienne are releasing their final album on 5th September and it's shaping up to be one of their best with some of the freshest production and a collab with Confidence Man to boot along with some other iconic producers! It's available on CD (and 2CD with exclusive mixes), vinyl, cassette and download.

1. Glad

2. Dancing Heart

3. The Go Betweens (with Nick Heyward)

4. Sweet Melodies

5. Save It For A Rainy Day

6. Fade

7. Brand New Me (with Confidence Man)

8. Take Me To The Pilot

9. Two Lovers

10. Why Are You Calling

11. He's Gone

12. The Last Time

Saint Etienne’s International is their final studio album. A dreamlike drift with friends and collaborators, International features cameos from the higher echelons of pop - 80s chart heroes, electro, acid house and all points in-between, from Vince Clarke to Nick Heyward, Confidence Man to Erol Alkan, Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Doves and Xenomania's Tim Powell, through to the lesser known, but equally exhilarating Bradfordians Augustin Bousfield and Flash Cassette. Saint Etienne are the 90s band who never left us, never imploded, and never adhered to clichéd excess. They are a testament to getting along, getting on with creating something new and, of course, getting away with it.

Co-written and produced with Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers, Glad is a sparkling piece of uplifting pop, and incredibly catchy. The song also features Jez Williams from Doves on guitar. Talking about the track, Sarah Cracknell said: “We asked Tom if he had any songs in progress that might suit Saint Etienne and he sent a backing track that he’d been working on with Jez from Doves. We fell in love with it straight away and the top line melody and words for Glad came easy.”

International is very different in style and approach to The Night, but both records are pure Saint Etienne. For International, the trio decided to ask friends, heroes and contemporaries to collaborate with them. That list included Confidence Man, who they discovered were St Et superfans after they played together at Kite Festival in 2022. Brand New Me feels like a rebooted 1991 gem – Nothing Can Stop Us meets Groove Is In The Heart – and features Sarah duetting with Confidence Man’s Janet Planet.

Other collaborators include Erol Alkan (on Sweet Melodies), Vince Clarke (Two Lovers), a duet with Nick Heyward (The Go Betweens) and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital (Take Me To The Pilot) as well as a brace co-written and produced with Tim Powell of Xenomania (Dancing Heart and He’s Gone).

Edited Wednesday at 18:421 day by lewistgreen

Confidence Man mentioned in their Chill Mix on Radio 1 on Sunday that their collab is coming. The sticker on the artwork confirms it as a single.