Tales from Turnpike House is St. Etienne’s eighth full-length, and all of their breezy, British ’60s pop and contemporary dance elements are present and accounted for–loungey flutes, ba-da-da-da-ba-bas and shuffling drum beats–but when Cracknell sings in “Side Streets” that she has “Features I quite like and don’t mind keeping,” it gives the false hope that […]
