Title: An OBSCURE-DISK Commentary
Product review: One hardly expects anything but ultra-selfconscious pastiche from these urbane Londoners, but even Julian Cope might have scratched his head at Saint Etienne's recent collaboration with Teutonic electro-minimalists To Rococo Rot and Stereollama Sean O'Hagan. Sound Of Water is, sonically at least, a note-perfect composite of the participants: verdant rushes of harpsichord and strings laid over beds of lightly percolating electronics. Sadly, SE neglected to write compelling songs to match the sonic setting, and most of the album drifts by elegantly on a cloud of sub-Bacharach meandering. The perma-underwhelming Sound of Water will bore newcomers and leave fans wondering about the wisdom of putting Krautrock in their Northern soul.
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