So Tough (Deluxe Edition)

英ダンスポップ・トリオ、セイント・エティエンヌの過去作品が2枚組リマスター・デラックス盤で嬉しいリイシュー!2ndアルバム『ソー・タフ』(1993年作品)UKチャート7位獲得作品!最大のヒット作!2009年リマスター!

Rolling Stone (8/5/93, p.65) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...visionary pop that ought to be a hit....It's Blondie without trash, each cut a delightful pop homage bestirring life-like memories..." Spin (3/93, p.71) - Highly Recommended - "...the record is a treat...the group achieves the near impossible and remakes England in its own wistful image....By turns elegiac and affecting, narcotic and uplifting, Saint E. sounds original and alive..." Q (4/93, p.88) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...a superb and strangely trippy sense of pop hooks....TOUGH is an inspired, evocative and quite beautiful London album..." Alternative Press (7/93, p.87) - "...Lusher but simultaneously harsher than FOXBASE ALPHA, SO TOUGH is danceable, singable, and in an ungushy kind of way, eminently fall-in-loveable...St. Etienne signpost the brightest future pop's possessed in years..." Melody Maker (1/1/94, p.77) - Ranked #33 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993. Q (Magazine) (p.123) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Singles 'You're In A Bad Way' and Hobart Paving stand out..." NME (Magazine) (2/20/93, p.28) - 6 - Good - "...classic St. Etienne...contains moments of true wonderment...compares favourably with their debut..." Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t provides bona fide belters such as 'You're In A Bad Way,' alongside countless sound collages and swirling, half-heard samples and steals."