{"id":24814,"date":"2017-03-22T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24814"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:43:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:43:52","slug":"saint-etienne-announce-new-album-home-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24814","title":{"rendered":"Saint Etienne announce new album &#8216;Home Counties&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Etienne have announced their new album &#8216;Home Counties,&#8217; which will be out on June 2nd via Heavenly Recordings. Along with the album announcement, they&#8217;ve released a new track titled <em>Heather<\/em>. Take a listen via Soundcloud below.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F311345062&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=757270\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Home Counties are an embarrassing place to come from. The name itself suggests that somehow the rest of Britain isn&#8217;t &#8216;home&#8217;, not even London. It&#8217;s where John Major&#8217;s vision of cricket and warm beer was meant to exist, but it&#8217;s not really like that at all, and it never has been. The Home Counties are a land of bootleg DVDs at car boot sales, Waitrose bags for life, parking disputes, bored teenagers in semis inventing ghost stories, squaddies causing trouble at all-you-can-eat buffets, train drivers in eyeliner and suburban rebels, a place where Tony Hancock and Spike Milligan drew inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Etienne grew up in the Home Counties. Here are sixteen new songs they have written about a day in the life of this doughnut of shires that ring the capital, punctuated by bursts of BBC radio to remind you what time it is, and all connected by train journeys &#8211; main lines, branch lines, commutes, escapes.<\/p>\n<p>It begins with <em>Something New<\/em>, and a teenage girl creeping through the front door after staying out all night. It stops at <em>Whyteleafe<\/em>, and imagines what might have happened if David Bowie had remained David Jones of Bromley, stuck with a desk job. It summons up the Enfield Poltergeist on <em>Heather<\/em>, and the anarchy of Essex&#8217;s Plotland settlers on <em>Sweet Arcadia<\/em>. <em>Train Drivers In Eyeliner<\/em> wonders what the railway network might be like if it was organised according to ASLEF&#8217;s taste in music.<\/p>\n<p>The love\/hate relationship people have with &#8216;home&#8217; is particularly acute in the Home Counties. Yet Saint Etienne understand that, if you squint, it could be almost utopian &#8211; here are the post-war new towns, much of the country&#8217;s modernist architecture, and the non-league football heroes of Sutton United, Leatherhead, Harlow Town. Three of the Beatles lived here. So did the Prodigy, the Zombies, Depeche Mode, Dr Feelgood and, naturally, Saint Etienne, small town groups looking to the capital but audibly inspired by municipal housing, box hedges and ring roads.<\/p>\n<p>The album was produced by Shawn Lee of Young Gun Silver Fox, with support from Augustus (Kero Kero Bonito), Carwyn Ellis (Colorama, Edwyn Collins), Robin Bennett (The Dreaming Spires), Richard X (Girls On Top \/ Black Melody) and long-time collaborator Gerard Johnson (Denim, Yes). It was recorded in central London. Sarah, Bob and Pete commuted to the studio every day for six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The cover of the album was designed by renowned artist Scott King (<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001v0Hg8IrDb4mpj1PDYnz2hsIkWXlAhhloDLPBsDoao4vsxaRz72lnJwvaxqaK0MDCxbjwnA91njXKDRJ1xIk1CjXMhyGAZl1AQMmMVOYH1T4A63p5tLhELKFNyIM1aJH-jIGlrPpk4O6yW0w2AhupshZBbdhhfL10&amp;c=yLwuK3-0MEDQZgmiUr7xtKD4gh0uV1PwFnI1RzM7-TnJNLNxisdZDQ==&amp;ch=sQhH4aSZLBXMZfARG85yuPHrK-ykwt4GfEazpqKDFZLfngyqPks48A==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">www.scottking.co.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/files.constantcontact.com\/fa31077b501\/6bd0bfeb-b401-4325-ac45-91fb52237446.jpg?resize=495%2C491&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Saint Etienne 'Home Counties' \" width=\"495\" height=\"491\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>&#8216;Home Counties&#8217; track listing<\/h5>\n<p>1. \u00a0The Reunion<br \/>\n2. \u00a0Something New<br \/>\n3. \u00a0Magpie Eyes<br \/>\n4. \u00a0Whyteleafe<br \/>\n5. \u00a0Dive<br \/>\n6. \u00a0Church Pew Furniture Restorer<br \/>\n7. \u00a0Take It All In<br \/>\n8. \u00a0Popmaster<br \/>\n9. \u00a0Underneath The Apple Tree<br \/>\n10. Out Of My Mind<br \/>\n11. \u00a0After Hebden<br \/>\n12. \u00a0Breakneck Hill<br \/>\n13. \u00a0Heather<br \/>\n14. \u00a0Sports Report<br \/>\n15. \u00a0Train Drivers In Eyeliner<br \/>\n16. \u00a0Unopened Fan Mail<br \/>\n17. \u00a0What Kind Of World<br \/>\n18. \u00a0Sweet Arcadia<br \/>\n19. \u00a0Angel Of Woodhatch<\/p>\n<p>Saint Etienne have also announced a number of festival and headline shows over the summer, including a performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London.\u00a0Don&#8217;t worry North Americans, Saint Etienne will also be touring the U.S. in September \/ October &#8211; dates will be announced shortly &#8211; hopefully they will hit Toronto on the way by.<\/p>\n<h5>European tour dates<\/h5>\n<p>May 26 &#8211; Hebden Bridge, UK -Trades Club<br \/>\nMay 27 &#8211; Oxford, UK &#8211; Common People Festival<br \/>\nMay 31 &#8211; Barcelona, SPA &#8211; Primavera<br \/>\nJune 2 &#8211; London, UK &#8211; Royal Festival Hall<br \/>\nJune 3 &#8211; Cardiff, UK &#8211; Tramshed<br \/>\nJune 4 &#8211; Birmingham, UK &#8211; Town Hall<br \/>\nJune 6 &#8211; Bexhill, UK &#8211; De La Warr Pavillion<br \/>\nJune 8 &#8211; Newcastle, UK &#8211; Sage<br \/>\nJune 9 &#8211; Edinburgh &#8211; UK &#8211; Queens Hall<br \/>\nJune 10 &#8211; Sheffield, UK &#8211; City Hall<br \/>\nJune 11 &#8211; Manchester, UK &#8211; RNMC Concert Hall<br \/>\nAugust 20 &#8211; Glanusk Park &#8211; Green Man Festival<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Saint Etienne, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintetienne.com\" target=\"_blank\">saintetienne.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Saint Etienne have announced their new album &#8216;Home Counties,&#8217; which will be out on June 2nd via Heavenly Recordings. 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