BUGGLES SORTS IT OUT

Seems some punters are peeved Belle & Sebastian got The Buggle's Trevor Horn on board to produce Dear Catastrophe Waitress, but not me.

Horn is one of pop music's great producers and as I was previously never a big fan of B&S's , was more than happy for him to tart up their sound.

Let's face it, Video Killed The Radio Star is one of the great singles of all time and if Horn, who also produced Frankie Goes To Hollywood, could polish up their hitherto fey noodling in the same way, then surely it must be a good thing.

We'll just put TaTu down to a Cocksucker Blues type contact snarl, shall we.

I like that Marc Hogan at Popmatters brings up Wes Anderson by way of comparison. I don't like that he over-praises Anderson, but you can't have everything.

A Belle & Sebastian record is like a Wes Anderson film: a delicate, self-contained universe of immaculate detail and pitch-perfect wordplay, where unforgettable and nearly unbelievable characters interact to earn a few highbrow guffaws and reveal subtle truths about the human condition. Both Anderson, director of such cult classics as Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, and indie-pop heroes Belle & Sebastian, fronted by singer-songwriter Stuart Murdoch, interweave vaguely retro aesthetics with strikingly au courant human commentary. Both Anderson and Murdoch bring an auteur sensibility to their art. And both, on a small scale, have inspired fervent fan bases.

AGB Rating - Distinction

Comments

[vague]

I really love the song "Mike Piazza New York Catcher." Gold, I say!

[Tony.T]

One of the better albums I've heard in a while. With John Barry notes and Celluloid Hero Kinks on Stay Loose it couldn't be anything else.