Tiger Bay cover

Tiger Bay

Released

Saint Etienne were on a near-constant creative roll by the time their third album Tiger Bay emerged in 1994; a subsequent single, “He’s On The Phone,” would give them their biggest UK chart single success the following year, but they were further perfecting their simultaneous dancefloor sleekness and wistful pop fantasias – often one and the same – already. Singles like the John Barry-tinged “Hug My Soul” and the steady charge of “Like a Motorway” should have been bigger than they were, but both they and the quieter songs like “Former Lover” and “Marble Lions” are equally lovely.

Ned Raggett

Recommended by

Suggestions
Echoes and Rhymes cover

Echoes and Rhymes

The Primitives
In The Presence Of Greatness cover

In The Presence Of Greatness

Velvet Crush
Lazily Spun cover

Lazily Spun

The Lazily Spun
Stay Alive cover

Stay Alive

Digits
I Feel You cover

I Feel You

Depeche Mode
Pop! The First 20 Hits cover

Pop! The First 20 Hits

Erasure
We Love Life cover

We Love Life

Pulp
Stardom Road cover

Stardom Road

Marc Almond
Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters cover

Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters

Marc Almond & the Willing Sinners
So Tough cover

So Tough

Saint Etienne
Wild! cover

Wild!

Erasure
The Infotainment Scan cover

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall