28. SAINT ETIENNE - Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)
28. SAINT ETIENNE - Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)
Hannelore’s parents are Swedish and she’s in England to study fashion. She likes music enough to be able to talk inconsequentially about it at parties, and if you ask her what her favourite group is she would say Saint Etienne. “They’re so European - I love how polite they are.” Hannelore loves the sleeves and their flat paintbox textures, the clicks and pops of the rhythms, the unfussy neatness of everything. On nights when she rides the late bus home to Barons Court and looks out at how wide the roads are and how sad the buildings look in the hard yellow light, she thinks she likes “Heart Failed” best of all. “You can hear it in the beats,” she tells me, “And the way the keyboards pulse, it is about how a country murders bits of itself. If I was English I would say it was an angry song. Not a pop song at all.”
(Original review here)
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