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Saint Etienne’s new “Burnt Out Car” mix

21 September 2008 at 12:12 pm · Filed under Music ·Tagged , , ,

I’ve been posting entirely too much about Saint Etienne’s recent activity these days, but their new single, a remixed version of “Burnt Out Car”, comes out tomorrow, and the band is now streaming it off their MySpace page.  Sounds great, a bit more chipper and sonically detailed than the version on Travel Edition, which was a bit minimalist.  A bit more drums too, I’d say.  Now, will someone please sell the single via digital download in the States?

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Saint Etienne’s new single, and a few other things

19 September 2008 at 8:04 am · Filed under Music ·Tagged , , ,

Burnt Out Car

Burnt Out Car

I already wrote about Saint Etienne’s new “Burnt Out Car” single (out September 22nd in the UK), but today they sent out a message to their mailing list featuring the cover art (to the right) and a bit more information.

The single will be out on 7″ and a two-part CD single.  The 7″ features new song “River” as a b-side.  CD1 features two new songs, “Night Vision” and “Destroy The Building”.  CD2 features the new mixes by Mark Brown.  “Burnt Out Car” itself (one of my fave Etienne songs, as I already said) is a new mix by Xenomania.

In other Saint Etienne news ….

The release of London Conversations has been pulled back to October 13th, due to “our complicated deluxe packaging”.

If you’re lucky enough to live in London, the band will be doing signing/DJing at Rough Trade East from 7 to 9pm on October 14th.

Finally, the band says they’ve got a couple new songs “in the bag” for their next album.  But no additional information on that.

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Upcoming from Saint Etienne

13 September 2008 at 8:30 pm · Filed under Music ·Tagged , , , ,

This isn’t exactly new news, but it’s on the verge of actually becoming relevant.  Saint Etienne has a “new” single coming out in ten days in the UK, on September 23rd.  Scare quotes because the single is actually a new mix (by Xenomania) of “Burnt Out Car”, which was originally released in the mid-90’s.  But several of the b-sides (“River”, “Destroy The Building”, “Night Vision”) appear to be new songs.  There are some remixes by Mark Brown as well.

I’m hoping that this one will be available for download in the States, because “Burnt Out Car” is one of my favorite Saint Etienne tracks, and I’m really looking forward to hearing this.  Hell, they’re pretty much my favorite band – I’m looking forward to just about anything by them.

London Conversations

London Conversations

Following close on the heels of the single will be a new career-spanning Saint Etienne best of, London Conversations, which will be available in single disc, double disc, and triple-disc-with-DVD versions. The double disc version is the only one I’ve seen a tracklist to.  It includes the new version of “Burnt Out Car”, obscurity “Lover Plays The Bass”, and “This Is Tomorrow”, which I believe has been previously only available on a single included in a magazine. The rest are the usual singles and key album cuts, though at this point the band’s discography has grown so large, it’s really impossible to hit all the great tracks even across two discs (what? no “Jack Lemmon”? no “Woodcabin”?).

You can read more about this stuff from the band’s blog.

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