Saint Etienne

This week's playlist includes new music by Emma Ruth Rundle, Low, Mastodon, Amyl & The Sniffers, Syd ft. Smino, Kacey Musgraves, and more

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Saint Etienne, Low, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Bevis Frond, Pays P, and Maston, plus a new compilation of essential Jazz Butcher non-LP tracks.

Based around slowed-to-a-crawl millenium-era pop samples, Saint Etienne‘s 10th album is unlike any they've made before.

Saint Etienne's 10th album is unlike any they've ever made before.

This week's playlist includes new music by The Specials, Anxious, Sturgill Simpson ft. Willie Nelson, Deafheaven, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and more.

Saint Etienne‘s new album I've Been Trying to Tell You is out September 10.

This week's playlist includes new music by Grouper, LUMP, Billie Eilish, Turnstile, Torres, Skepta ft. J Balvin, and more

“To me it’s about optimism, and the late nineties,“ Bob Stanley says of Saint Etienne's 10th album, “and how memory is an unreliable narrator... I think it sounds gorgeous.”

Edited by Tessa Norton and Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley, ‘Excavate!‘ is a compendium of ephemera and essays that explore tangential but essential aspects to Mark E Smith and The Fall‘s worldview.

From The Cure, R.E.M. and The Smiths, to Broken Social Scene, Pavement, Portishead and more, here are 20 songs by bands where the singers keep their mouths shut.