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Belle & Sebastian, The Boy with the Arab Strap

Audio CD

Disk ID: 78541

Disk length: 45m 35s (12 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1998

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career 2:23
2. Sleep The Clock Around 4:58
3. Is It Wicked Not To Care? 3:22
4. Ease Your Feet In The Sea 3:35
5. A Summer Wasting 2:06
6. Seymour Stein 4:42
7. A Space Boy Dream 3:01
8. Dirty Dream Number Two 4:14
9. The Boy With The Arab Strap 5:14
10. Chickfactor 3:32
11. Simple Things 1:46
12. The Rollercoaster Ride 6:35

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Review

Belle and Sebastian follow up the considerable promise of 1997's fantastic If You're Feeling Sinister with an album that is, unbelievably, even better. The Boy with the Arab Strap is an immediately infectious and delicious pastiche of fey, Nick Drake-ian vocals; lilting pop melodies; shimmery arrangements; croony wonder; and tortured, lit-smart lyrics. Belle and Sebastian are smarter than the Smiths, wittier than the Beach Boys, more fun than the Velvet Underground, and even more inscrutable than R.E.M. That's heavy company, but The Boy with the Arab Strap proves they deserve to be belles of the ball. --Tod NelsonThis highly anticipated album from Belle and Sebastian arrives with every hope satisfied. Each song is a cunning short story that wraps itself around you like a cozy couch throw. The loose theme running through this 12-song reverie is seduction. It plays out in both the drowsy sexual hopes of principal songwriter Stuart Murdoch's idle protagonists and the giddiness of bandmate Stevie Jackson's "Seymour Stein" and "Chickfactor," which document his bewitchment by the city of New York and its beautiful girls and florid pitchmen. The complex arrangements favor a whimsical diversity best experienced in "Sleep the Clock Around," which features synthesizer bloops, trumpets, and bagpipes! If you haven't figured out that this Scottish eight-piece deserves every iota of hype it's receiving, it's time to have your ears checked and your record collection gone over by a certified professional. --Lois MaffeoThe quirky Glaswegian outfit's highly acclaimed & highly anticipated 1998 album featuring 12 timeless pop songs that are neither pretentious nor too cute. A 1998 Jeepster/ Matador release.

Other Versions

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The Boy with the Arab Strap

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 45m 36s (+0m 1s)

The Boy with the Arab Strap

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 45m 38s (+0m 3s)

The Boy with the Arab Strap

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 45m 38s (+0m 3s)

The Boy with the Arab Strap

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 45m 39s (+0m 4s)

The Boy with the Arab Strap

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 45m 57s (+0m 22s)

The Boy with the Arab Strap

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 45m 7s (-1m 32s)

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