BELLE AND SEBASTIAN IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BRILLIANT CAREER
Coming from Glasgow and named after a French children book and tv series of the 60s, Belle and Sebastian have crafted their delicate (retro) pop sound through the years establishing a cult following but failing to win mainstream audiences. With 7 studio albums, a lot of EPs, some live recordings and a double b-side compilation, the band proved to be both productive and consistent. So much that it hasn’t been an easy task to select the 36 tracks displayed here. Of course, most of the tracks come from the band’s studio albums but, considering the quality of the material released on their various EPs, I had to include some excerpts from it.
And, voilà, a 2 CDs filled with a little under 2 and a half hour of retro-indie pop at its best. Enjoy!
My BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Top Three
1 – If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996)
2 – The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998)
3 – The Life Pursuit (2006)
RIYL:
The Smiths, Of Montreal, Love, The Magnetic Fields
1 comment:
thanks for this brilliant blog only just discovered it.have had this, elliott smith and ben folds all brilliant thaks pd daze
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