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So Tough by Saint Etienne (CD, Mar-1993, Warner Bros. Records Record Label) 
So Tough by Saint Etienne (CD, Mar-1993, Warner Bros. Records Record Label)

 
So Tough by Saint Etienne (CD, Mar-1993, Warner Bros. Records Record Label)

Release Date: Mar 1993
Format: CD
Record Label: Warner Bros. Records (Record Label)
Genre: Rock & Pop, Synth Pop
UPC: 093624516620
Product ID: EPID52942076
Description: Saint Etienne: Sarah Cracknell (vocals); Bob Stanley (keyboards, synthesizers, handclaps); Pete Wiggs (Moog synthesizer, bass, sampler). Additional personnel: Q-Tee (vocals); Ian Catt (guitar, programming); Cajun Queen (bass). Recorded a...
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Distributor:WEA (Distributor)
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:DDD

Album Notes
Saint Etienne: Sarah Cracknell (vocals); Bob Stanley (keyboards, synthesizers, handclaps); Pete Wiggs (Moog synthesizer, bass, sampler).
Additional personnel: Q-Tee (vocals); Ian Catt (guitar, programming); Cajun Queen (bass).
Recorded at RMS Studios, London, England in 1992. Includes liner notes by Kevin Pearce.
At the time of this album's release, dance music scenesters assumed that the title of 1993's SO TOUGH was some sort of response to the Pet Shop Boys' recent SO HARD. Actually, the album title is stolen from the 1972 Beach Boys album CARL AND THE PASSIONS--SO TOUGH. Even more so than the group's kaleidoscopic 1991 debut, FOXBASE ALPHA, SO TOUGH marries club rhythms to classic pop forms. The arrangements, while only occasionally resembling Brian Wilson's work, are undoubtedly influenced by his style. This is particularly evident on the lush, hypnotic "Avenue," which wears its PET SOUNDS influence proudly. Elsewhere, the Continental "Mario's Cafe," girl-groupish "You're in a Bad Way," and thumping "Join Our Club" exhibit other sides of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs' smart, open-minded musical attitude. SO TOUGH is much more than the sum of its influences.

Editorial Reviews
3.5 Stars - Very Good - ...visionary pop that ought to be a hit....It's Blondie without trash, each cut a delightful pop homage bestirring life-like memories...
Rolling Stone (08/05/1993)

Highly Recommended - ...the record is a treat...the group achieves the near impossible and remakes England in its own wistful image....By turns elegiac and affecting, narcotic and uplifting, Saint E. sounds original and alive...
Spin (03/01/1993)

4 Stars - Excellent - ...a superb and strangely trippy sense of pop hooks....TOUGH is an inspired, evocative and quite beautiful London album...
Q (04/01/1993)

Ranked #33 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993.
Melody Maker (01/01/1994)

6 - Good - ...classic St. Etienne...contains moments of true wonderment...compares favourably with their debut...
NME (02/20/1993)

...Lusher but simultaneously harsher than FOXBASE ALPHA, SO TOUGH is danceable, singable, and in an ungushy kind of way, eminently fall-in-loveable...St. Etienne signpost the brightest future pop's possessed in years...
Alternative Press (07/01/1993)

4 stars out of 5 -- [I]t provides bona fide belters such as 'You're In A Bad Way,' alongside countless sound collages and swirling, half-heard samples and steals.
Record Collector

4 stars out of 5 -- Singles 'You're In A Bad Way' and Hobart Paving stand out...
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