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Foxbase Alpha (CD)

By: Saint Etienne (Artist)

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Saint Etienne Artist Snapshot:

Saint Etienne were purveyors of a groundbreaking mix of various British indie styles and straight-up dance music. The ensemble--comprised essentially of old friends Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, with the addition of Sarah Cracknell as the permanent vocalist--formed in the early 1990s, and garnered both critical and commercial acclaim for its intelligent, witty, and highly danceable amalgamation of nearly the entire spectrum of British pop music. Over the course of its existence Saint Etienne have dabbled in everything including electronica, club sounds, '60s pop, reggae, indie-pop, and even folk.

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DISC 1 for Foxbase Alpha (CD) Album By Saint Etienne (Artist)
1   This Is Radio Etienne
2   Only Love Can Break Your Heart
3   Wilson
4   Carnt Sleep
5   Girl VII
6   Spring
7   She's The One
8   People Get Real
9   Stoned To Say The Least
10   Nothing Can Stop Us
11   Etienne Gonna Die
12   London Belongs To Me
13   Kiss And Make Up
14   Like The Swallow
15   Dilworth's Theme
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (2/14/92, p.55) - "...a glitterting, kaleidoscopic set of dance tracks..." - Rating: B+
Q - One of Q Magazine's 50 best albums of 1991.
Alternative Press (7/95, p.116) - "...a pop odyssey generating inspired, witty music informed by the past, but built for the future..."
Melody Maker (12/91) - Ranked #17 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991 - "...a dazzling diverse display of sampladelic imagination."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ambient music holds a firm grip over many of the segues...the album's most famous for the pure sampleadelic pop of 'Nothing Can Stop Us'..."

Title Note

Saint Etienne: Sarah Cracknell (vocals); Bob Stanley (keyboards, tambourine); Pete Wiggs (keyboards, bongos).

Additional personnel: Moira Lambert (vocals); Ian Catt (guitar, keyboard programming); Harvey Williams (bass); Pete Heller (programming); Bo Savage, Gazareth Sweeney, Uncle Vibes, Billy Nasty (background vocals).

Saint Etienne's kaleidoscopic 1991 debut, FOXBASE ALPHA, is one of the most influential albums in '90s dance music. While the rest of the U.K. was mired in a post-acid house Ecstasy hangover, the Northeast London trio of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley, and Pete Wiggs married club rhythms to classic pop forms. The album's first two singles were covers of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "Kiss and Make Up" by Sarah Records mainstays the Field Mice. Elsewhere, the album features esoteric sample loops like "Wilson," featuring samples from an old record about British currency decimalization, and "Etienne Gonna Die." There are also killer pop songs like the pounding "She's the One" and the lovely "Carnt Sleep." Cracknell's classic pop voice recalls Petula Clark, and Stanley and Wiggs are inventive arranger-producers. FOXBASE ALPHA is a dance-pop classic.

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