Saint Etienne released an unlikely cover of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" as their first single in 1990, and the track also appeared on their debut album, "Foxbase Alpha". The effortlessly light and lovely UK trio transformed this song into a bouncy indie-house track, a far cry from the dirgey ballad of the original. Sarah Cracknell's sweet vocal melody mostly stays true to the original, but the dubby bassline and proto-triphop beats would engender several deep-house versions based on Saint Etienne's incorporation of "Balearic Beat", the Ibiza-inspired style of dance music that also infatuated New Order at the time.
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