Saint Etienne announce new LP "The Night"



Our Brand New LP

As promised we're bringing you news about our brand new album which is entitled "The Night".

Two exclusive vinyl editions plus a CD will be available to pre-order from our shop here from 5pm GMT next Wednesday 20th November. All orders will ship in early December for global delivery before Christmas.

"The Night" is our 12th studio LP and features 14 brand new recordings produced by Saint Etienne and Augustin Bousfield between January and August this year.

You can take a sneak-peak preview of 'Half Light' from the album here..

..and, if you visit Spotify, Apple Music and other DSPs you can listen to 'Half Light' plus an exclusive B-side 'Daydream' that won't be available elsewhere - click here and choose your preferred DSP.

The Saint Etienne online shop here will be selling two exclusive vinyl formats of "The Night" - a super limited edition 300 pressing on black vinyl plus an exclusive transparent "coke bottle green" vinyl - and many of you will be pleased to know we're also offering a CD version housed in an eco-friendly card wallet, with printed inner sleeve and booklet.

Every order placed via the Saint Etienne shop will be accompanied by a free - and totally exclusive - CD of bonus material entitled "Deep Into The Night".

For full details of exactly what's on offer please visit our online shop here but remember nothing goes on sale until 5pm next Wednesday 20th November.

As with all our Christmas offerings stocks are extremely limited so please be sure to arrive at our new hassle-free, fast check-out shop within the first hour or so to avoid disappointment.



In the mean time some words from Benjamin Myers about "The Night"...

Saint Etienne take us gently by the hand, to sink deep down through the layers of the after-hours and pull tired minds back from the brink of despair. With The Night all anxieties abate, the wickedness of a quickening mind is slowed to a soft-focus smear, and everything takes on a lofty and agreeable appeal of utter tranquillity.

The Night belongs to a long tradition that begins in the pre-times with one man finding solace in the sound of the wind in the grass or water running over rock, then strolls on through centuries of softening sounds, passing through collage and the music of the new age.

It takes in contemporary somnambulist masterpieces such as Virginia Astley's From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, the KLF's Chill Out and Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden. Its architecture is ambient, its lighting low, its surfaces gleaming with infinite possibility. All nocturnal life is to be found here, but though in the basement of the night the dimensions are different. Words take on new meaning, shadows lean ever longer and a lone fox pauses beneath a solitary streetlight on a nameless street, something snatched and held between its beautiful, bladed teeth. Out here anything is possible.

Hectic times breed hectic minds but here there is no such thing as a lonely hour, just the many laminated layers of The Night and all the soothing secrets that lie within.

So easy does it. Slip on in. And breathe.