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Album Reviews
Album Review: Belle And Sebastian – The BBC Sessions (Jeepster)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 17 November 2008
Belle And Sebastian supergeeks and fans alike have been patiently waiting for a follow up to 2006 album ‘The Life Pursuit’. This isn’t it. But, as you will have seen above, that new album is on the way. Meanwhile, this is a collection of BBC recordings for Mark Radcliffe, Steve Lamacq and John Peel, which span over five years, between 1996 and 2001. Featuring songs from their debut ‘Tigermilk’, through to their fourth album ‘Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like Peasant’ the 14 tracks are a wonderful reminder of B&S’s formative past, and include alternate versions of favourites ‘The Wrong Girl’ and ‘Lazy Line Painter Jane’. While the compilation is perhaps lacking some of the sessions those aforementioned supergeeks would hope for, it is on the whole a pretty comprehensive collection featuring tracks that built the foundations of the band’s cult status. As a special treat, there are also four previously unreleased tracks, including ‘The Magic Of A Kind Word’ and ‘Shoot The Sexual Athlete’, which are held in high regard by many fans not only for their degree of rarity, but also because they are the last studio recordings to feature Isobel Campbell. So, while you wait for that new album, this is certainly enough to get your teeth into. DH
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