Tiger Bay cover

Tiger Bay

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Saint Etienne were on a near-constant creative roll by the time their third album Tiger Bay emerged in 1994; a subsequent single, “He’s On The Phone,” would give them their biggest UK chart single success the following year, but they were further perfecting their simultaneous dancefloor sleekness and wistful pop fantasias – often one and the same – already. Singles like the John Barry-tinged “Hug My Soul” and the steady charge of “Like a Motorway” should have been bigger than they were, but both they and the quieter songs like “Former Lover” and “Marble Lions” are equally lovely.

Ned Raggett

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