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Belle And Sebastian to release soundtrack to new Simon Bird film
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 3 July 2019
Belle And Sebastian have announced that they will release a new album, ‘Days Of The Bagnold Summer’, which is the soundtrack to the forthcoming film of the same name.
Based on a graphic novel (also of the same name), the film is the directorial debut of Simon Bird, best known for his roles in ‘The Inbetweeners’ and ‘Friday Night Dinner’. Bird, a longtime fan of Belle & Sebastian, personally asked them to write the film’s soundtrack.
In preparation for the project, frontman Stuart Murdoch reveals he first read the original graphic novel, saying: “Its style and its atmosphere set me off straight away. I read it on a Friday and by Monday I pretty much had all my ideas lined up. What was great was that Simon hadn’t shot anything then”.
Wasn’t that all a bit premature? Apparently not. “You want to get in early, because that way you can start having late night conversations with the director about ‘The Graduate’, or whatever. We all have fantasies about those great movies of the 60s and the 70s. If you going to get involved with a project like this, you want to do it right”.
“We’re quietly pleased with how the collaboration went”, he says of the finished product. “But the truth is that you don’t know what’s going to happen when it goes out into the world, and people hear it”.
Bandmate Sarah Martin adds: “It’s more consistent, probably, than most of our albums. Soundtracks are a deeper cut. They’re not a big pop statement”.
The film is not set for release until next year, but the album will be out on 13 Sep. The first track from it, ‘Sister Buddha’, is out now.
