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<div style="text-align:center"><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size:24px"><b>SAINT ETIENNE</b></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><i>Words and Music by Saint Etienne</i></b></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><i><b><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Release Date August 14th</font></b></i></div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">“If there's a theme to <i>
Words and Music</i>, it's that you're only as old as the music you love — words to live by, for Saint Etienne and everyone else.”<b> –
</b><b style="font-weight:bold">NPR</b> </span><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="display:inline!important">“Saint Etienne arrived perfectly pitched… They are still making music about music, but fresh-sounding airy constructions from the new Words and Music by Saint Etienne album glance back at youth's mistakes
and pop infatuations with sadness, affection, maturity and humour.” <b>-</b><span style="font-weight:bold">
</span><b style="font-weight:bold">The Guardian</b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">“Cracknell and cohorts Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs are dab hands at making catchy chart pop music that is intelligent and cool, expertly balancing the reflective with the jubilant. All ages will find something to love.”<b> –
</b><b style="font-weight:bold">The Times (UK)</b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="display:inline!important">“Words and Music… is a fantastic and warm collection of jubilant happy/sad pop moments, delivering all that Saint Etienne are known for.”
<b>– </b><b style="font-weight:bold">BBC</b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial">English band,
<b>Saint Etienne</b> are releasing <span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"><b><i>Words and Music by Saint Etienne</i></b></span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"> on
<b>August 14<sup>th</sup></b> in the US. Saint Etienne are a band who have had an immutable and enduring relationship with pop music and that pristine pop moment.
<span style=""> </span><b>Pitchfork</b> says, </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)">“<i><b>Words and Music by Saint Etienne</b></i></span><span style="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><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)">. The execution is mostly impeccable, with crystal-clear yet memorably idiosyncratic lyrics, and slick electro-pop production.”
</span><b><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)">PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE A DOWNLOAD OF THIS FANTASTIC ALBUM!</span> </b></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The transcendent first single
<b>“Tonight” </b>effortlessly captures that heart stopping nanosecond where a song transforms the mundane into something extraordinary. Check out the video for “Tonight” here:
<a href="http://youtu.be/UEWEAqNR2XQ">http://youtu.be/UEWEAqNR2XQ</a></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(26,26,26)">From the distinctly English sonic collages of their groundbreaking debut album
<i>Foxbase Alpha</i> through to the darker folk-inflected turns of <i>Tiger Bay</i> and even the glacial electronic landscapes of
<i>Sound of Water,</i> 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 their ninth studio album.
</span><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style=""> </span></span><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"><b>Saint Etienne</b> have assembled what constitutes a long form aural essay explicitly exploring
the through line of themes and memories triggered by music which has run through their entire body of work.</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial">When Bob Stanley talks about their new album
<i style="font-weight:bold">Words and Music by Saint Etienne</i>, 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.</font></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Saint Etienne</b> are available for interviews. They will be announcing a Fall tour of the U.S. – their first in several years! – Very soon.</font></p>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB">More information contact: Chloe Walsh</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">
</span></b><b><i style=""><span lang="EN-GB">at Press Here – 212 246 2640</span></i></b></p>
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