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- Mythtruster
When it comes to getting an honest answer, there may be no better member of Belle and Sebastian than guitarist Stevie Jackson.
- Found sounds
It may be a relief for long-time fans of Belle and Sebastian to hear nothing but the subtle click of rimshot snare, light piano chordings, and strummy guitar at the start of the band’s new The Life Pursuit (Matador).
- Belle & Sebastian
The last thing anyone would have expected from Belle and Sebastian after the languid poetics, soft-focus instrumentation, and tasteful trumpet refrains of If You’re Feeling Sinister was producer Trevor Horn.
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- Belle and Sebastian | The BBC Sessions
Call ’em twee or call ’em bookish (after all, they did take their name from a French children’s book), but don’t call Belle & Sebastian anemic.
- Guest lists
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
- Stars of Track and Field
Stars of Track and Field make a sound much bigger than Belle and Sebastian's tidy twee-pop shuffle.
- Arab Strap
Even after 10 years, Arab Strap are probably better known for the Belle and Sebastian album title The Boy with the Arab Strap than for any of their own recordings here in the US.
- On the Racks: June 6
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- Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
Isobel Campbell got her start playing cello and singing in the Glasgow indie collective Belle and Sebastian.
- Gorillaz in the midst
Remember the great electronica gold rush of ’97, the year Madonna’s Maverick label won a massive bidding war over long-ignored rave mystic Liam Howlett, a/k/a Prodigy, and we all grooved to the electropunk clash of “Smack My Bitch Up”?
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