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Tales From Turnpike House by Saint Etienne (CD, Jun-2005, Sanctuary UK) 
Tales From Turnpike House by Saint Etienne (CD, Jun-2005, Sanctuary UK)

 
Tales From Turnpike House by Saint Etienne (CD, Jun-2005, Sanctuary UK)

Release Date: Jun 2005
Format: CD
Record Label: Sanctuary (UK)
Genre: Rock & Pop, Synth Pop
UPC: 5050159027125
Product ID: EPID51914529
Description: English version. Saint Etienne, the U.K.'s foremost purveyors of indie dance pop, returned in 2006 with TALES FROM TURNPIKE HOUSE. The trio is in excellent form here, revisiting the propulsive disco and house-inflected fare of their earl...
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Track Listing
1. Sun in My Morning
2. Milk Bottle Symphony
3. Lightning Strikes Twice
4. Slow Down at the Castle
5. Good Thing
6. Side Streets
7. Last Orders For Gary Stead
8. Stars Above Us
9. Relocate
10. Bird Man of Eci
11. Teenage Winter
12. Goodnight

Details
Distributor:MSI Music Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
English version.
Saint Etienne, the U.K.'s foremost purveyors of indie dance pop, returned in 2006 with TALES FROM TURNPIKE HOUSE. The trio is in excellent form here, revisiting the propulsive disco and house-inflected fare of their earlier releases on cuts like "A Good Thing" and "Stars Above Us." Yet songwriters/producers Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley are as steeped in music history as ever, harking back to the 1960s harmony-heavy pop of the Beach Boys ("Sun in My Morning") and the wiry sounds of '80s new wave ("Oh My").
Sarah Cracknell's breathy vocals add just the right amount of breeziness and luster to these pop confections. The album's best moments, in fact, are its quietest, when Cracknell's sultry whisper and Wiggs and Stanley's glossy arrangements and production are brought into perfect balance (the bossa nova-themed opener "Side Streets" and the hazy, downtempo "Dream Lover" are two cases in point). Beautifully conceived and executed, TALES FROM TURNPIKE HOUSE is a refreshing dose of electronic pop purity.

Editorial Reviews
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [A]n unabashedly joyful celebration of being British...[it] could make an Anglophile out of anyone.
Rolling Stone

TALES is unabashedly domestic, and to avoid being too groove-heavy or sleepy, it's sequenced to pogo between lite ballads and dance-floor fodder.
Magnet

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