Finisterre (Deluxe Edition)

IMPORT. Saint Etienne has released an expanded and re-mastered version of their album Finisterre on Heavenly as a Deluxe Edition featuring the original album, an extra disc of session tracks and B-sides and extensive sleeve-notes.

Finisterre was a love/hate letter to London, with its iconic image of the collapsed Ronan Point on the cover, recorded at a time of mass demonstrations against the government and just after folk hero Ken Livingstone had been elected mayor. Alternately harsh and gentle, electronic and thrumming, it included the nu-disco call-to-arms single "Action." Unreleased tracks on the second disc of the deluxe edition include the near-mythical Dr. Who-sampling "There There My Brigadier," and a tribute to the mysterious Aqualad who resides under the Thames, waiting for his moment to take the city back from the financiers and to open up the Post Office Tower's revolving restaurant once again.