“Once you’ve been away from your hometown for some time, it takes quite a long time I think, you start to look back on it quite fondly,” Cracknell tells me on the phone from the band’s practice space.

The British indie-pop trio is not breaking up, but would like “to go out with a bang” with new album International ...

The band plans to follow the release of 'International' with a farewell tour highlighting its greatest hits. In the meantime, they are beginning to think about what life after Saint Etienne could look ...

Audio for this feature is no longer available. For more than two decades, Saint Etienne has embodied the art of understated pop. Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley's synthesizers and drum machines have been ...