New St Etienne single = marvellous

You know what you're getting with a St Etienne record: vapour trail vocals, a soupçon of wistful romance, a hint of disco, and a chart placing in the lower end of the top 40 :-(

Their new single, Method Of Modern Love (sadly not a cover of the Hall & Oates song) ticks all the right boxes. It’s upbeat, frothy pop with a deliciously catchy chorus and production by Mr Richard X, of The Sugababes and Rachel Stevens "fame".

You can buy it from 9th February - a week after the band's much-delayed greatest hits set London Conversations gets released - and it received its premiere (fanfare please) on Radio 2 at 2:15am on Tuesday morning... Oh dear.

For the non-insomniacs amongst you, it sounded like this.

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