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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia">Released May 29<sup>th</sup> on Universal (Digital) & August 14th (CD/vinyl)</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Listen to “<b>Words and Music by Saint Etienne”</b> <b>on NPR’s First Listen</b> here:</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Georgia"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/05/20/151711015/first-listen-saint-etienne-words-and-music-by-saint-etienne">http://www.npr.org/2012/05/20/151711015/first-listen-saint-etienne-words-and-music-by-saint-etienne</a></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:rgb(26,26,26)">“<b>Words and Music by Saint Etienne</b></span></i><i><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:rgb(26,26,26)">, is a sterling affirmation that relating pop music to your life doesn't
have to grow more difficult as you get older..</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:rgb(26,26,26)"> .<i>The execution is mostly impeccable, with crystal-clear yet memorably idiosyncratic lyrics, and slick electro-pop production.” </i>(<b>7.8</b> – <b>Pitchfork</b>)</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia; color:rgb(38,38,38)">“If there's a theme to <b><i>Words and Music</i></b>, it's that you're only as old as the music you love — words to live by, for Saint Etienne and everyone else.” – <b>NPR</b></span><span style="font-family:Georgia"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia">When Bob Stanley of beloved British pop trio <b>Saint Etienne</b> talks about their new album “<b>Words and Music by Saint Etienne</b>”, he affectionately refers to the “strange magic” of pop. About the
special alchemy that transmutes even the most mundane of experiences – walking home with the headphones on at night, sitting in a bedroom with your friends in the day, getting ready to go out on the weekend – into a lingering moment of seamless enchantment,
one that resonates for the rest of your life.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia">Saint Etienne, </span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia">you see, are a band who have had an immutable and enduring relationship with pop music and that pristine pop moment. From the distinctly
English sonic collages of their groundbreaking debut “Foxbase Alpha” through to the darker folk-inflected turns of “Tiger Bay” and even the glacial electronic landscapes of “Sound of Water”, the history of pop has clearly had a powerful impression on the trio
of <b>Pete Wiggs</b>, <b>Sarah Cracknell</b> and <b>Bob Stanley</b>, with the result being that for this, their ninth studio album, they have assembled what constitutes a long form aural essay explicitly exploring the throughline of themes and memories triggered
by music which has run through their entire body of work.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia">As Stanley elaborates, “<b>Words and Music by Saint Etienne</b>” is an album about “how music affects your life. How it defines the way you see the world as a child, how it can get you through bad times
in unexpected ways, and how songs you’ve known all your life can suddenly develop a new attachment, and hurt every time you hear them. More than how it affects and reflects your life though”, he sums up, “the album is about believing in music, living your
life by its rules”.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia">To that end, the album opens with “<b>Over the Border</b>”, a wry, moving spoken-word reflection with singer <b>Sarah Cracknell</b> ruminating on her first, tentative steps into a lifelong love affair
with pop, beginning with her using “<i>Top of the Pops as my world atlas</i>” as a child, before mixtapes from first loves soundtrack her teenage years; finally she asks “<i>when I was married, and when I had kids, would Marc Bolan still be so important?”</i> It’s
a powerful, emblematic introduction to the album, one that sees the unabashed, glitter strewn, delirious disco highs of “<b>I’ve Got Your Music</b>” and “<b>DJ”</b> sit comfortably alongside the gorgeous, plaintive laments of “<b>I Threw it All Away</b>” and
“<b>25 Years</b>”. But from Cracknell calling for salvation through song in the gospel-tinged “<b>Record Doctor</b>” right through to her chanting “<i>tonight when the lights are going down/ I will surrender to the sound</i>” on taster single “<b>Tonight</b>”,
the endlessly emotive, sometimes redemptive relationship between music and listener has never been so celebrated and revered, and through the LP there isn’t a moment when <b>Saint Etienne</b> break that pact.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia">WATCH the video for "<b>Tonight</b>" here: <a href="http://youtu.be/UEWEAqNR2XQ">http://youtu.be/UEWEAqNR2XQ</a> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia">In the course of their work, <b>Saint Etienne</b> have always celebrated the greats of pop past – Stanley credits Goffin and King, Mann and Weil, Greenwich and Barry with helping him to understand relationships
at a formative age, for instance – but with “<b>Words and Music By Saint Etienne</b>” they have made an album which sees them join that rich lineage, those writers of pop songs full of strange magic. Tracks such as “<b>When I Was 17</b>” and the aforementioned
“<b>Tonight</b>” (produced by Girls Aloud lynchpin Tim Powell and mixed by Richard X) see the group as vital and fresh as ever. Surrender to the sound now; as the group say, there’s no turning back.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:Georgia">TRACKLISTING</span></u></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">1. Over the Border</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">2. I’ve Got Your Music</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">3. Heading For the Fair</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">4. Last Days of Disco</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">5. Tonight</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">6. Answer Song</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">7. Record Doctor</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">8. Popular</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">9. 25 Years</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">10. DJ</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">11. When I Was Seventeen</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">12. I Threw it All Away</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:Georgia">13. Haunted Jukebox</span></p>
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