Subsequent month, the nice London trio Saint Etienne will say goodbye. They’ve been a bunch for 35 years now, they usually’ve acquired some absolute dance-pop classics of their catalog. Over the many years, they hever stopped evolving and experimenting. Quickly, they’ll launch Worldwide, their twelfth and apparently remaining studio album. (If the “remaining album” stuff seems to be a conceptual stunt they usually carry on recording, that’ll be simply tremendous with me.) We’ve got already posted lead single “Glad,” which options Doves’ Jimi Goodwin and the group co-wrote and co-produced with the Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands. Now, they’ve shared one other single.
Saint Etienne’s new monitor “Take Me To The Pilot” is just not an Elton John cowl. The group made the monitor with the help of one other ’90s dance nice — Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll, who co-wrote and co-produced the tune. It’s a gorgeously swirling rave monitor that evokes previous revolutions whereas nonetheless feeling firmly futuristic. Actually, it’s wonderful that anybody could make a monitor like this once they’re so many many years into their profession. Right here’s what Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley says about “Take Me To The Pilot” in a press launch:
“Take Me To The Pilot” is a darkish thriller, a flight to someplace new, someplace to make your coronary heart beat quicker. It’s about escape, disappearance, reinvention. Who’s the pilot? You don’t get to seek out out — that’s the thriller, and the enjoyable. Paul Hartnoll from Orbital and Tim Powell from Xenomania labored on it with us, and it’d simply have the most effective bassline we’ve ever launched.
And right here’s Pete Wiggs:
Again in 1990, after Bob had written a bit on Orbital, the Hartnoll brothers kindly allow us to see their stage setup. We hadn’t accomplished something dwell but and have been barely mystified. I believe we remained so. Years later, now a lot wiser, I used to be reintroduced to Paul at a celebration in Hove, the place I now dwell. We saved bumping into one another on the seafront, acquired chatting, and though I wasn’t certain he’d say sure, I requested if he’d be up for writing a tune with us. He did — and we adore it!
Vogue photographer Alasdair McLellan shot the “Take Me To The Pilot” video in Rome, and it really works as a showcase for an exceptionally handsome breakdancer who goes by the title Jet. Right here’s what McLellan has to say:
We have been capturing this lad known as Jet, a breakdancer, for Area Homme+ when Bob acquired in contact a few video for Saint Etienne. I filmed Jet breakin’ exterior a bungalow in Tickhill, the village close to Doncaster the place I grew up. When Bob talked about the album was known as Worldwide, I made a decision to increase the concept and shoot a second half in Rome. It occurred to coincide with the Vatican selecting the following Pope, so I assumed why not have Jet dancing by means of the streets, with piazzas and Ponte Sant’Angelo’s angel sculptures within the background? As we moved by means of the town, the video unfolded right into a sort of breakin’ pilgrimage to St Peter’s within the Vatican.
Test it out beneath.
Worldwide is out 9/5 on Heavenly.
