Glad

Saint Etienne are about to bow out after thirty five years of making records. Sarah, Bob and Pete are releasing their final album, International, in September and ahead of it put out a song last week, the irresistible, uptempo, Northern Soul on synths sounds of Glad...

Glad was co- written by Chemical Brother Tom Rowlands and has Dove Jez Goodwin on guitar but it's Saint Etienne through and through, a song celebrating taking joy in small things.

Back in February they released some remixes of Alone Together from last year's The Night album. The Hove Lawns Sunset Mix is a Balearic joy, lazy drums and summer horns. They did a vinyl release, pressing up the number that were ordered. My copy has never arrived, lost somewhere in the postal system rather annoyingly.

Rollercoaster

Before he was a Dust and then a Chemical Brother Tom Rowlands was in a band called Ariel who had several unsuccessful attempts to have a hit. Not all was lost though- some of their songs hold up. This Dean Thatcher remix of Rollercoaster has bags of 1990 charm, a step or two removed from Dean's wonderful St Etienne Flying remix.

Rollercoaster (Dean Thatcher's Flying Mix)