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Lead Performance: Saint Etienne; Genre: Pop
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After proving on 1998's Good Humor that they could make the perky '60s-70s AM-radio pop they'd always worshiped, the proto-trip hoppers Saint Etienne celebrate their 10th year with a return to moody futurism. With help from German electronicats To Rococo Rot, The Sound of Water is a dreamy set suffused with synth bleeps and strings, nodding to Eno, Abba, and U.K. electro-soul peers Everything but the Girl. High point: ''How We Used to Live.'' A-
Posted Jun 09, 2000
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