Saint Etienne - sycamore, 2000

"Compared to her breathy, often off-key delivery on So Tough, Cracknell’s voice has also gained sensitivity with age. On the beautiful ‘Sycamore’, she sings of remembrances fondly — "I’m thinking of them, I’m thinking of streams/Through the air the night was so long and dizzy" — before striking a gorgeously menacing note at its finish: "Let’s travel again to fall upon three chimneys/Well, the door was low, you were mistaken."