During my last year at college, Foxbase Alpha came out and I loved it to death. I went on an exchange to Russia late '91 and listened to it repeatedly there, it fit the dreamy noir weirdness of Moscow, hell, it fit everywhere. Saint Etienne stood out to me like a splash of purple across a sea of drab grey. They had glamour, but not the horrid aspirational 80's kind, an attainable hepness of pop culture, formica Caffs and London psychogeography. They paid off my college overdraft and gave me a real leg up.
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