Remixing the '60s.Tales From Turnpike House * Saint Etienne Saint Etienne is the name of: Places:
It's never been easy for British pop band Saint Etienne to stay on board U.S. record labels. They've hopped from majors to indies to other indies and now to Savoy Jazz. But it's as good a fit as any for the genre-bending trio who throw Nick Drake folk, Sandie Shaw For the author, see . Sandie Shaw (born Sandra Ann Goodrich on 26 February 1947) was one of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s. With her hair, slender frame, model cheekbones and outfits, she has been described as the ultimate working-class 'it' girl-pop, and Aphex Twin electronic references into a hopper and still manage to sound coherent album after album. Queer clubgoers know them from the remixes they commission from every "next"-level producer and DJ they meet. This latest release finds them daring to remain steadfastly themselves, never once apologizing for their idiosyncratic id·i·o·syn·cra·sy n. pl. id·i·o·syn·cra·sies 1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group. 2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity. 3. Englishness or their refusal to leave behind the year 1966, with lyrics about middle-aged moms parking strollers in front of Sainsbury's grocery store and dreaming of the past as their old 45s get dusty. It's the kind of romantic melancholy that the members of Saint Etienne take as their birthright birth·right n. 1. A right, possession, or privilege that is one's due by birth. See Synonyms at right. 2. A special privilege accorded a first-born. and wear proudly on the sleeve of their collective Mary Quant Mary Quant OBE FCSD (born February 11 1934 in Kent, England) is an English fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. dress. |
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