Saint Etienne - alone together, 2024

"For an amazingly long time, Saint Etienne have deftly blended and updated the cool bits of past forms with the sounds of now. Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley, and Pete Wiggs have made music that's danceable, joyous, peppy, and sometimes mournful. Now, in 2024, they've turned their sights on years gone by, with a release that is heavy with a sense of time spent, and regrets weighed and assessed. That said, it's also quite possibly their loveliest record to date."