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Saint Etienne can’t remember exactly when – or indeed why – they decided that their new album would be their last. “We must have felt it was in the air,” says Bob Stanley, who founded the modernist da

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

Ending a musical career on a high note isn’t a common phenomenon, with many acts releasing a number of lacklustre singles in the last knockings, but there are plenty of exceptions in our latest countd

EMERGING FROM THE BAGGY SCENE IN THE EARLY 90S, THE CHARLATANS OUTLASTED MANY OF THEIR PEERS THANKS TO A CONSTANT EVOLUTION OF THEIR SOUND − A JOURNEY THAT CONTINUES WITH THE RELEASE OF THEIR 14TH STU

“Words don’t make sense/Words won’t make it right” ...

Our far-out trip to far-flung prog