Belle & Sebastian's second record, If You're Feeling Sinister, is, for all intents and purposes, really their first, since their debut in 1996 was not heard outside of privileged inner circles. And If You're Feeling Sinister really did have quite a bit of an impact upon its release in 1996, largely because during the first half of the '90s the whimsy and preciousness that had been an integral part of alternative music was suppressed by grunge. Whimsy and preciousness are an integral part of If You're Feeling Sinister, along with clever wit and gentle, intricate arrangements -- a wonderful blend of the Smiths and Simon & Garfunkel, to be reductive. Even if it's firmly within the college, bed-sit tradition, and is unabashedly retrogressive, that gives Sinister a special, timeless character that's enhanced by Stuart Murdoch's wonderful, lively songwriting. Blessed with an impish sense of humor, a sly turn of phrase, and an alluringly fey voice, he gives this record a real sense of backbone, in that its humor is far more biting than the music appears and the music is far more substantial that it initially seems. Sinister plays like a great forgotten album, couched in '80s indie, '90s attitude, and '60s folk-pop. It's beautifully out of time, and even if other Belle & Sebastian albums sound like it, this is where they achieved a sense of grace.
....what up MOG? I just found out that my editorial siege will continue forthwith in the next day or so but it's after 6 and I'm folding the curtain for today...I just realized that I've been outside all day punching up shit that somebody else will get all the credit for (man, the more I know lawyers, the more I love animals)...anyway, I'm at the spot sippin' on an Absolut Cape Cod checking out...
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As its a boring sunday afternoon, and theres little to do other than watch tv (all the cool kids are in Berlin) i thought id write a bit about my current favourite bands and why they are held in such a position. the arcade fire will not be mentioned. apparently i talk about them quite a bit. my favourite band in the whole world right now, are belle & sebastian. i have had a long relationship wi...
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Belle & Sebastian's "*If You're Feeling Sinister LP*":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++203358&a_id=R+++259934&PersonID=P%20%20%20203358&prodid=MAT10296.2&si=rhino is a sweet "while-you're-sipping-coffee-at-work" kind of album- I highly recommend it to my friends who spend lots of their time in front of a keyboard...I got a cup of joe; a little work to do, so I'm all over it r...
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Belle & Sebastian's "*If You're Feeling Sinister LP*":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++203358&a_id=R+++259934&PersonID=P%20%20%20203358&prodid=MAT10296.2&si=rhino is a sweet "while-you're-sipping-coffee-at-work" kind of album- I highly recommend it to my friends who spend lots of their time in front of a keyboard...I got a cup of joe; a little work to do, so I'm all over it r...
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....what up MOG? I just found out that my editorial siege will continue forthwith in the next day or so but it's after 6 and I'm folding the curtain for today...I just realized that I've been outside all day punching up shit that somebody else will get all the credit for (man, the more I know lawyers, the more I love animals)...anyway, I'm at the spot sippin' on an Absolut Cape Cod checking out...
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As its a boring sunday afternoon, and theres little to do other than watch tv (all the cool kids are in Berlin) i thought id write a bit about my current favourite bands and why they are held in such a position. the arcade fire will not be mentioned. apparently i talk about them quite a bit. my favourite band in the whole world right now, are belle & sebastian. i have had a long relationship wi...
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So, all those kids who have been paying big bucks for first US pressings and those recent UK pressings of the first four Belle & Sebastian albums...this doesn't bode well for you. Matador Records has started a fantastic reissue initiative, with Cat Power's Moon Pix and You Are Free, Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights and Antics, and Pavement's Crooked Rain/Wowee Zowee/Slanted & Enchanted havi...
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