Named after a French football team, childhood friends Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs
put aside careers as budding music journalists to mix girl group hooks, sugar
sweet vocals and lilting Euro disco into some of the sharpest indie pop of the
1990s. Initially the concept of Saint Etienne was for the two producers to work
with a different vocalist on each track, but when Sarah Cracknell lent her
seductive, hushed harmonies to a re-working of Neil Young's 'Only Love Can Break
Your Heart', she soon became a permanent fixture.
Their 1991 debut album 'Foxbase Alpha' became a cult favour...