Music / NewsMusic / NewsSaint Etienne’s film mines the freedom and chaos of summerShot before and during lockdown, the visual album teases the fun we’ve all been longing forShareLink copied ✔️September 21, 2021September 21, 2021TextDazed DigitalPhotographyAlasdair McLellanStylingEllie Grace CummingI’ve Been Trying To Tell You In the newest video for the legacy dream-pop band Saint Etienne, Alasdair McLellan teams up with AnOther’s Fashion Director Ellie Grace Cumming to create a sunkissed and sodium tribute to the great British summer. The 45 minute film, which is available to view on BFI Player now, journeys everywhere from Stonehenge to the Yorkshire Dales, near the photographer’s hometown, and builds on his career-long loveletter to rural England. It arrives at the perfect time, too, just as the club doors and park gates of the UK unlock and we are able to enjoy a period of relative freedom. “I drew on that period from 16 to 25; when you don’t really know what you’re doing, what you’re about and you’re discovering yourself,“ McLellen told AnOther of the film, which features costume designs by Grace Cumming and was shot over two years. The film accomampanies the London band's tenth album I've Been Trying to Tell You, which explores the optimism and euphoria of pre-millennium Britain. The LP, which is out now via Heavenly, twists familiar, late-90s bangers from the Honeyz to Natalie Imbruglia into plaintive and longing widescreen pop. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORE10 great albums you may have missed in the last three monthsLamb is making ‘electronic lyrical’ music that sounds like no one elseOnMeet the creatives turning up the heat in Lagos with Burna Boy and OnArabic shoegaze duo Kiss Facility speak a language deeper than words‘Nazis can’t dance’: Photos from London’s House Against Hate protest rave5 tracks you can’t miss from March 2026ADL: The best and worst tracks on Yeat’s new album‘A cig in one hand and an inhaler in the other’: Fcukers know how to partyThis book looks inside the mad world of Lee ‘Scratch’ PerryDazed Mix: Lauren AuderZaylevelten is leading a Gen Z Nigerian rap revolutionBillionhappy is the ‘king’ of the Nu China rap sceneEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy