Belle & Sebastian - 'Books' (Rough Trade)
4/5
By: Clara Burtenshaw
'Your Cover's Blown' begins with the pop-art funk meltdown of seventies scale-descending synths, phone ringing and sleazy female spoken vocals. Borrowing from the Doobie brothers, it is a tantalising taster of what we can expect next from the candy-coated bittersweet Scotties, but a sound essentially more suited to early Air than the Belles, who have built their reputation upon schoolboy charm and that peculiar British elegance that speaks of leather bound-volumes and oak-panelled libraries.
Second a-side, the catchy 'Wrapped Up In Books', from the recent 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress' album returns Belle and Sebastian to former fine fettle as definitive pop-poet laureates, observing the foibles, accidents and mishaps life throws at us with characteristic downbeat sing-along eccentricity. Long may the fine tradition continue.
Artists in this article: Belle & Sebastian
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