Now a classic! Belle and Sebastian offer up a largely acoustic folk-pop sound with deep roots in the '60s. Their guitar-and-piano arrangements are often filled out by luxurious trumpets and strings, but the clever, sardonic lyrics keep things from ever getting too mushy. The bright, irresistible pop melodies stand in sharp contrast to decidedly downbeat lyrics that recall Morrissey at his sharpest. Timeless, gorgeous, and just cool enough to avoid a mainstream breakthrough.

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At long last, all seven of Belle And Sebastian's Jeepster" EPs have been collected into a convenient 2-CD set. Often considered their best work, and previously only available as hard-to-find imports or in a box set, the EPs, consisting of 25 songs recorded from 1996-2001, are now available for the price of a single frontline CD. The four tracks from the EP This Is Just A Modern Rock Song have never been released in the US before.[ read more ]

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And so it begins, Belle & Sebastian's Rough Trade era...the lush production of Trevor Horn (Welcome to the Pleasure Dome) fully compliments the group's pop sensibilities, as demonstrated by the uplifting panorama of the lead single, "Step Into My Office, Baby." Longtime internet bootleg fave, "Lord Anthony," finally gets the studio treatment fans have been looking for. Even more promising are the new artistic turns the new album takes. "Piazza, New York Catcher" is a charming folky piece that is vague a   [ read more ]

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Written almost entirely by frontman Stuart Murdoch, the new Belle and Sebastian album, their sixth, makes a return to Matador Records and is a magnificently assured and diverse pop record. With nods to influences as diverse Cornelius, Manfred Mann, David Bowie, The Life Pursuit mingles the folky, be-sweatered pathos of their earliest work with joyfully satirical laste-'60s sunshine pop and the sophisticated early '80s-influenced work reminiscent of their prior album, 2003's Dear Catastrophe Waitr   [ read more ]

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After 1997's "If You're Feeling Sinister" made them critics' darlings, Scottish octet Belle And Sebastian ran straight into a series of label woes, and into the inevitable feeding frenzy that surrounds a free agent with their prodigious talents. Their experience with one label exec is detailed in "Seymour Stein" on "The Boy With the Arab Strap," which finds the band building on the pastoral pop charms of "Sinister," adding a palpable layer of anger and an increasingly rich sonic palette to their painfully s   [ read more ]

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CD FORMAT. Belle & Sebastian return with the first of two new singles, beginning with "Jonathan David." It includes three previously unreleased tracks: "Jonathan David" (with lead vocals by Stevie Jackson), "Take Your Carriage Clock And Shove It," and live favorite "The Loneliness Of A Middle Distance Runner."

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An extended meditation on one of the year's most talked about films; 34 minutes of instrumental film score and six new vocal tracks from the soundtrack to Todd Solondz's ?Storytelling? as performed by Belle & Sebastian. Though all the music is by the group, this isn't exactly a proper B&S album, the bulk of the selections are instrumentals, intercut with snatches of dialogue from the film. That said, those instrumentals bear the kind of quiet grace and intimate beauty that the band's fans have come to expec   [ read more ]

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DELUXE DOUBLE CD IN A HARDBOUND BOOK! !At long last, all seven of Belle And Sebastian's Jeepster" EPs have been collected into a convenient 2-CD set. Often considered their best work, and previously only available as hard-to-find imports or in a box set, the EPs, consisting of 25 songs recorded from 1996-2001, are now available for the price of a single frontline CD. The four tracks from the EP This Is Just A Modern Rock Song have never been released in the US before.

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The much anticipated fourth album from Glasgow's Belle & Sebastian. An altogether more complex album than ?The Boy With the Arab Strap,' its direct predecessor, ?Fold Your Hands' introduces harpsichord, mellotron and full orchestrated strings

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Fourteen gorgeous tracks recorded for the BBC between 1996 and 2001. At the time, Belle and Sebastian rarely performed live, so all these songs are noticeably different from the studio versions. The CD includes an additional four unreleased songs from their classic early Jeepster period.

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Limited edition version of Belle and Sebastian's BBC Sessions featuring a cover drawn by contest winning fan Colocho from France. Fourteen gorgeous tracks recorded for the BBC between 1996 and 2001. At the time, the group rarely performed live, so all these songs are noticeably different from the studio versions. The regular CD includes an additional four unreleased songs from their classic early Jeepster period. The limited, deluxe double CD contains an entire live show broadcast on BBC    [ read more ]

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Proving that the comeback of 2003's Dear Catastrophe Waitress was no fluke, Belle & Sebastian's sixth full-length album, The Life Pursuit, is a sleek, stylish affair that finds the group quietly pursuing new ground without forsaking its trademark witty, literary, tuneful pop. In retrospect, Dear Catastrophe Waitress wasn't so much a comeback as a restart, finding Stuart Murdoch reasserting himself as the group's undisputed leader in the wake of the departure of Stuart David and {$Isobel   [ read more ]

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