Saint Etienne have announced that they’ll be releasing their twelfth studio album, The Night, on December 13 via Heavenly Recordings. It marks the British trio’s first full-length since 2021’s I’ve Been Trying To Tell You (and since we didn’t listen to what they were trying to tell us, now it’s bed time—night night!). Clocking in at under two minutes, first single “Half Light“ floats along with lush synth chords and pleasant vocals from Sarah Cracknell. The song, alongside the whole album, was produced by composer Augustin Bousfield.
“It was great to all be in the same studio together again up at Gus’ in Bradford,” shared the band’s Pete Wiggs. “[W]e realized that it had been several years since we’d actually done that, sprawling out on the carpet, mugs of coffee in hand, sheets of lyrics and half ideas for titles lying around us.”
Check out “Half Light” below, and pre-order The Night here.
