Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell Announces New Album Red Kite, Shares “On the Swings”

Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell Announces New Album Red Kite, Shares "On the Swings"

Saint Etienne‘s Sarah Cracknell released her first solo full-length, Lipslide, back in 1997. She’s coming back with a new one this summer. Red Kite is out June 15 via Cherry Red. That’s the album’s opening track “On the Swings” above.

The album was recorded and produced by Carwyn Ellis (Colorama, Edwyn Collins) and Seb Lewsley (Edwyn Collins), and it features guests Nicky Wire (of Manic Street Preachers) and the Rails. 

In a statement, Cracknell talked about some of the album’s influences:

The first influences Carwyn and I started talking about were records by Marianne Faithful and lots of baroque pop music like the Left Banke. From there, we started taking inspiration from records by Ennio Morricone, Joe Meek, the Beach Boys. We were drawn to records where the productions are properly out there; records where an odd instrument or noise sits right at the top of the mix and becomes the hook. I wanted to accentuate the wrong thing and try to stop people in their tracks. On the more upbeat tracks, Felt records from the Cherry Red years were a real cornerstone, records that had space and air in them.

Find her tour dates below the album’s tracklist.

Red Kite:

01 On the Swings
02 Nothing Left to Talk About [ft. Nicky Wire]
03 In the Dark
04 Ragdoll
05 Underneath the Stars
06 Hearts Are For Breaking
07 Take the Silver [ft. the Rails]
08 The Mutineer
09 I Close My Eyes
10 It’s Never Too Late
11 I Am Not Your Enemy
12 Favourite Chair

Sarah Cracknell:

06-16 Brighton, England – Komedia
06-17 London, England – Bush Hall
06-19 Glasgow, Scotland – Oran Mor
06-20 Manchester, England – Gorilla
06-21 Leeds, England – Leeds City Varieties Music Hall

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