A tight, more or less extroverted pop record with the expected nostalgic threads running through it, and gaining an extra (hypothetical) half-star for its sheer unabashed love of pop music and insistence on its transformative effect on people's lives. Saint Etienne are a totemic band for me, and while it's unlikely that anything new that they release will get me as much as the older, classic stuff that I was listening to while most susceptible, years ago, this is still solid.
