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- Good Humor
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Saint Etienne
Released 1998

Split Screen
03:24
993 plays

Sylvie
04:49
896 plays

Goodnight Jack
04:38
710 plays

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- 1
- Woodcabin
- 04:08
- 1,249 plays

- 2
- Sylvie
- 04:49
- 896 plays

- 3
- Split Screen
- 03:24
- 993 plays

- 4
- Mr. Donut
- 03:34
- 599 plays

- 5
- Goodnight Jack
- 04:38
- 710 plays

- 6
- Lose That Girl
- 04:03
- 2,008 plays

- 7
- The Bad Photographer
- 04:15
- 680 plays

- 8
- Been So Long
- 03:33
- 547 plays

- 9
- Postman
- 03:46
- 473 plays

- 10
- Erica America
- 04:02
- 493 plays

- 11
- Dutch TV
- 03:28
- 429 plays

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album review

Good Humor has Saint Etienne back cooking up more delectable lolli-pop. From "Woodcabin," the dubby, bass-heavy opener, Good Humor is a typically arch Saint Etienne album full of easy-listening dream pop. Tracks like the shimmering "Lose That Girl" and the swirling "Erica America" show Saint Etienne at its melancholic best. There are, predictably, some near misses such as the Beatlesque "Mr. Donut," which is as sweet as a strawberry field but fails to deliver the melodic promises made by the smart atmospherics. "Goodnight Jack," with its pastel-shaded flute loops and subtle breakbeats, has a positively cooler-than-cool feel and a wrenching change of pace toward the middle of the song. Sure, Good Humor is clever, perhaps overly so, and yeah, it's full of the Et's contrived coyness and we-know-more-than-you attitude, but it's good stuff. Sometimes you just want to put on a disc, sit back, and let it carry you off to someplace else. If that's all you're looking for, Good Humor is sweet ear candy. ~ Matthew Hilburn, All Music Guide