New Music: Glad

            

After 35 years of heavenly British pop, Saint Etienne have decided to call it a day. Actually they're not “breaking up,” per se, as Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Crackness remain great friends they're just ceasing operations. So they're going out with a bang, one last album, International, their 13th., album which will be released September 13 via Heavenly, it was co-produced by the band and Tim Powell of hitmakers Xenomania. International is also packed with guest collaborators, including Erasure‘s Vince Clarke, Haircut 100‘s Nick Heyward, Erol Alkan, Confidence Man‘s Janet Planet, and Orbital‘s Paul Hartnoll, and more. The first single from the album is this "Glad," which was co-written and co-produced by Tom Rowlands and featuring Jimi Goodwin. It’s a classic Saint Etienne banger with a soaring chorus. The band say: "We asked Tom if he had any songs in progress that might suit Saint Etienne, and he sent a backing track that he’d been working on with Jez from Doves. We fell in love with it straight away, and the topline melody and words for ‘Glad’ came easy." The video was shot by Scrub.