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Ily a dans ce beau livre à la fois ce que les enfants aiment entendre et ce que les parents aiment lire. Les parents s’émouvront autant que les enfants en lisant l’histoire de Théo le bourdon et de sa chère maman, ils riront aux larmes des déboires sentimentaux de Nounours et de la belle poupée Clara, ils seront agréablement surpris par la sagesse du fermier Pipo, ils réfl échiront à la signifi cation de l’amitié en participant à l’étonnante aventure forestière de Jeannot, …

Saint Etienne return with their 10th album and prove they are still utterly essential. Saint Etienne have always understood that pop music is the nearest thing we have to time travel, the closest we can get to breathing the air of a different time. On this album, they take that theory to its logical conclusion. I’ve Been Trying To Tell You uses sounds and samples from 1997 to 2001, evoking the folk memory of the period by using and twisting recordings from the time, re-working them into new songs. “They're all by people you'd have heard on daytime Radio 1 or 2 at the time,” Bob clarifies, “not Boards of Canada or anything.” Opening track “Music Again”, for example, begins with some gorgeously poignant electric harpsichord from a long-forgotten R&B hit.