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 MOREJudeline is the past, present and future of Spanish music Chanel Beads is searching for meaning in “this big old world”Escentric MoleculesMolecule 01 + Champaca is Escentric Molecules’ latest sultry scentGiggs urges government to make lyrics inadmissible in courtHow waterbaby went from make-up artist to Sweden’s next star‘Together We Are America’: Unpacking Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performanceHow Bad Bunny became a political iconXG: The Japanese ‘X-pop’ group who want to change historyInside Johnnie Walker’s Sabrina Carpenter-inspired Grammys weekendIn pictures: Taiwan’s spiritual temple ravesListen to Sissy Misfit’s essential afters playlistAddison Rae, KATSEYE and more attend Spotify’s pre-Grammys bashEscape 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