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Sep 5, 2025Saint Etienne want you to remember them this way with not just the pop album of the year but with the pop album of all our lives.
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Sep 2, 2025To the end, Saint Etienne have never faltered on their mission statement. Magic is here. Believe. [Sep 2025, p.103]
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Sep 5, 2025International is the trio’s ideal signing off point. It is both uplifting and reflective, leaving the contrasting emotions of a lump in the throat and a smile on the face. Everything they’ve ever done, in a nutshell.
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Sep 8, 2025The exuberant creative highs that fuel International are both devastatingly sad and the best possible farewell.
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Sep 5, 2025International is beautiful and painful in equal amounts. Beautiful because one of the great pop bands of the modern era has left such a moving, inspired, and special artifact, painful because it's not fair for them to quit when they can still make records like this.
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UncutSep 2, 2025Like all the best goodbyes, Saint Etienne bow out on top form and affectionate terms. [Sep 2025, p.26]
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Sep 2, 2025The whole is deeply bittersweet - but also a joyous farewell from this most wonderfully acute of English pop ensembles. [Oct 2025, p.80]
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Sep 9, 2025For the most part, fans should be thrilled that International is an album that, in terms of construction and feel (if not overall quality), sits alongside Saint Etienne’s early run of classic LPs.
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Sep 4, 2025Overall, ‘International’ looks back at the confidence the band has in creating bright catchy pop songs, whilst maintaining that whilst the band may no longer continue, the legacy that they have created remains bright and international.
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Sep 2, 2025It’s a throwback to 90s aesthetics, but it’s equally a modern dance pop record, almost a reclamation moment like New Order’s late-career return to form, Music Complete. Saint Etienne similarly tap into everything they do best, but it’s by no means groundbreaking.
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Sep 8, 2025It is a graceful but slightly anticlimactic grand finale: a victory lap over well-trodden ground that eagerly commands the spotlight before it goes out for good.