Saint Etienne - International (Indie Exclusive, Orange Vinyl) Stevie Ray

Saint Etienne - International (Indie Exclusive, Orange Vinyl) Stevie RayAfter Saint Etienne's 35 year excursion through pop, International, is their final album length statement. A dreamlike drift with friends and collaborators, International features cameos from the higher echelons of pop 80s chart heroes, electro, acid house and all points in between from Vince Clarke to Nick Heyward, Confidence Man to Erol Alkan, Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Doves and Xenomania, through to the lesser known, but equally exhilarating

the first release of the ongoing Japan Archival Series

where it dawns on one of the people

Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on translucent red coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl

2 Hey Like a Child

The result is a collection of songs permeated by the spirit of the place

But just a month after recording a solo project in January of 2023

Nigerian-American musician

Fantastic Vehicle

but Seattle band La Luz found something different in it: resilience

Vinyl LP pressing housed in a heavyweight jacket with a debossed cover

keyboardist Alan Clark

The images were so profound and so beautiful that they would come to inspire the latest recording