If You're Feeling Sinister (1996) (Reissued)

Artist: Belle & Sebastian
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Label: Matador -- Dna --
UPC: 00744861029625
Release Date: 6/29/1999
Buy.com Sku: 60317221
Item#: MRDY62
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Stars Of Track And Field, The ~ Belle & Sebastian
2. Seeing Other People ~ Belle & Sebastian
3. Me And The Major ~ Belle & Sebastian
4. Like Dylan In The Movies ~ Belle & Sebastian
5. Fox In The Snow, The ~ Belle & Sebastian
6. Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying ~ Belle & Sebastian
7. If You're Feeling Sinister ~ Belle & Sebastian
8. Mayfly ~ Belle & Sebastian
9. Boy Done Wrong Again, The ~ Belle & Sebastian
10. Judy And The Dream Of The Horses ~ Belle & Sebastian



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Belle And Sebastian includes: Stevie Thomas Jackson (vocals, guitar); Christopher Thomas Geddes (piano); Richard (drums); Isobel, Sarah Martin, Stuart David, Stuart Murdoch.
There's nobody named Belle or Sebastian in this Scottish septet, but that's just part of the self-effacing mythology with which the band has surrounded itself. Their low profile in the media and even on their own albums (no personnel or songwriting credits) is in keeping with the shy-boy aesthetic promulgated on this, their debut album. While the influence of lovable British wimps like Nick Drake, The Smiths and Al Stewart (!) and fellow Scot Donovan can be heard throughout, the band has an identity and highly developed sense of songcraft all its own.
Led by Stuart Murdoch, 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.

 
Artist Overview
Formed in 1996, and hailing from Scotland, Belle & Sebastian are a musical collective with a penchant for ellipticism, declining to have their pictures on album covers or in the press, shying away from interviews, and never listing their individual names in album credits. This humility is in keeping with the gently bookish vibe the group evoke with their fragile, highly melodic pop tunes. Lead singer/songwriter Stuart Murdoch sounds heavily influenced by '60s popsters like the Beach Boys, Bee Gees, and Hollies. His lyrics, however, are filled with references to contemporary pop culture and a trenchant, acerbic wit that contrasts with the friendly warmth of the music.

Artist Influences
Al Stewart | Bee Gees | Burt Bacharach | Dexys Midnight Runners | Donovan | Elvis Costello | Felt | Josef K | June Brides | Nick Drake | Orange Juice | Pulp | Simon & Garfunkel | The Association | The Beach Boys | The Beatles | The Field Mice | The Go-Betweens | The Housemartins | The Kinks | The Smiths | The Trash Can Sinatras | The Velvet Underground

Artist Contemporaries
Aberfeldy | Aidan Moffat | Aluminum Group | Architecture in Helsinki | Badly Drawn Boy | Bart Davenport | Beam | Camera Obscura (Scotland) | Cardinal (Pop) | Ciao Bella | Club 8 | Departure Lounge | East River Pipe | Elliott Smith | Eric Matthews | Insta | Jarvis Cocker | Julie Doiron | Kleenex Girl Wonder | Lambchop | Magnetic Fields | Math and Physics Club | Nagisa Ni Te | Neutral Milk Hotel | Of Montreal | Pelle Carlberg | Richard Davies | Rufus Wainwright | Saint Etienne | Shearwater | Shout Out Louds | Sodastream | Softies | Sondre Lerche | Stars | Steinbecks | Stereolab | Syd Matters | The Cat's Miaow | The Concretes | The Divine Comedy | The Guild League | The Hermit Crabs | The Hidden Cameras | The High Llamas | The Ladybug Transistor | The Mosquitos | The Olivia Tremor Control | The Owls | The Pastels | The Poems | The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir | Travis (UK) | Trembling Blue Stars | Tullycraft | Walker Kong | Whistler | Wooden Stars | Wussom*Pow! | Young and Sexy

Artist Followers
Aberfeldy | Architecture in Helsinki | Camera Obscura (Scotland) | Future Pilot A.K.A. | Hefner (UK) | Jens Lekman | Los Campesinos! | Magic Numbers | Sondre Lerche | Stars | Sufjan Stevens | The Aislers Set | The Decemberists | The Hidden Cameras | The New Pornographers | The Polyphonic Spree | Young and Sexy


 
Compilation Appearances
Matador At Fifteen (w/ Bonus DVD)
Latenighttales
Back To The Bus
Juno
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (ost)(Explicit Version)
Juno:music From The Motion Picture(os

 
Associated Artists and Works
Storytelling ~ Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
LateNightTales ~ Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 04/21/1998
Original Release Date : 1996
Catalog ID : 296
Label : Matador (record label)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00744861029625

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, pp.64-65)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."

Rolling Stone (7/10-24/97, p.124)
- 4.5 (out of 5)
- "...it's tough to find fault with a band that opts for shy resolution over self-promotion and, in so doing, reaches peaks of effortless pastoral grandeur."

Spin (1/98, p.87)
- Ranked #18 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Albums Of The Year."

Spin (10/97, p.141)
- 8 (out of 10)
- "...magnificently layered arrangements blend folk-rock (minus the preciousness)
with a near-pure pop sense that could seduce even the most jaded audiophile. It's death-by-comfy-chair..."

Entertainment Weekly (7/11/97, pp.68-69)
- "This Glaswegian septet's 10 doleful musings set to dainty pop melodies are so potent they could make Morrissey cry....Belle and Sebastian create an album's worth of such songs on their debut." - Rating: A

Q (1/98, p.111)
- Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997."

Option (7-8/97, p.92)
- "...IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER is filled with sharply drawn moments...as well as melodies that stick in your head....This is the best selection of sad pop to come out in a long, long time."

Village Voice (2/24/98)
- Ranked #8 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Mojo (Publisher)
(p.62)
- Ranked #38 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Perfect, precise and -- considering the subject matter -- abnormally mature."

  
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