Tiger Bay

Another great album

good stuff

Merging folk and electronica in this recording was something that probably kept it from being understood at the time. These deluxe editions add so much to your understanding and add so much good music to their canon. They are filled with overlooked and unreleased gems.

perfect chill out music or back ground for QUALITY TIME with someone special or after work with a three skinner

Great album, one of the groups best

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With the release of Tiger Bay, Saint Etienne seemed to chance upon what their career had been leading up to. ‘Foxbase Alpha’ and ‘So Tough’ had both been full of great dance, pop, and experimental moments, but it would be their 1994 album where they would widen their sound whilst perfecting what they'd previously done so well.What's so astonishing is that the range of styles can fit and flow together so well. ‘Urban Clearway’ to ‘Former Lover’ is a prime example, a modern (for the time) dance electronica track next to cool, summery, heartbreaking acoustic track. Through the rest of the album, latino, ambience, pop, kraftwerk-ian electronica all sit happily next to each other. Somehow structuring an album without bringing attention to it’s self, only on ‘Western Wind/Tankerville’ do the songs fade into each other, and there really the same song after all. Saint Etienne would record something of a Tiger Bay 2 with Sound of Water, an album as modestly well structured, but not as compelling or cross genre.I shouldn’t really point out favourite tracks since every moment is breathtaking, but I’ll pick out ‘Like A Motorway’, the first song off the album I heard, Sarah Cracknell's voice is beyond gorgeous, it's dreamy, lush and saddening all at once, while juxtaposed by pounding beats and driving synth-lines.Watch out for the 1996 re-release it has a jumbled running order, and three extra tracks that don’t really fit in (including euro pop spectacular 'He's On The Phone'), differing art work inside and out, but if you can get both, why not, . Also it’s worth searching for ‘Casino Classics’, if only for Underworld’s astonishingly good remix of ‘Cool Kids of Death’, there is also a lot of good stuff on there too.So Tough is impressive but loses it's a way a little towards the end, whereas Tiger Bay is a perfect album.

The Et's classic album, Tiger Bay, is one that sees Sarah's sexy vocals purring gently to Pete and Bob's masterpiece.Hug My Soul and the "la la lala la laaa laa" of Pale Movie brings in the warmth of summer, Sarah's girlie vocals being the perfect summer voice, taking you then to the autumnal "Western Wind". The album is like a seasonal journey with the mood discretely sliding into the next.This album probably stands equal to "Sounds of Water" and slightly in the shadow of the genius of "So Tough".If you're a fan of Saint Etienne then make sure that this cd is amongst yours.