Tiger Bay (Deluxe Edition)

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

Tiger Bay was Saint Etienne's second Top 10 album, and took the group into a new place by mixing traditional folk melodies with modern electronica. They worked with Underworld, Shara Nelson, Stephen Duffy, arranger David Whitaker, and Birmingham neo-dubsters Original Rockers to create a windblown but lush record, echoing its oil painting cover. Previously unheard bonus tracks on Disc Two include an abandoned sequel to "Mario's Café" called "Black Horse Latitudes" (set in the evening, in a Tufnell Park pub), and the perky "Wedding of Stacy Dorning" which looked forward to the sunshine pop of 1998's "Good Humor."