Saint Etienne have announced their last album, International.
Drawing to a close 35 years of recording music together, the band have decided to amicably call it quits with their 13th studio LP, which sees them team up with a cast of collaborators that includes Confidence Man, Erasure’s Vince Clarke, Erol Alkan, Paul Hartnoll of Orbital and Nick Heyward.
To mark the new record’s announcement, Saint Etienne have shared lead track ‘Glad’, which was co-written and produced with Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, and also features guitar from Doves’ Jez Williams. You can watch a video for the song below.
In a statement about ‘Glad’, the trio’s Sarah Cracknell said: “We asked Tom [Rowlands] if he had any songs in progress that might suit Saint Etienne and he sent a backing track that he’d been working on with Jez from Doves. We fell in love with it straight away and the top line melody and words for ‘Glad’ came easy.
The group’s Pete Wiggs added: “The song is about taking pleasure in everyday things like nature and the outdoors when life is otherwise getting you down.”
The trio will follow the release of their final album with a series of live dates, scheduled to take place in 2026, which will be announced at a later date.
Heavenly Recordings will release International on September 5, 2025.
