Bookish indie veterans mature in style
Long after they seemed to emerge from school textbooks’ margins, Stuart Murdoch’s literate pop vets Belle And Sebastian have proven gracefully adept at navigating midlife regrets and resolve.
Recorded in their native Glasgow, the group’s first studio album since 2015 leans into core band virtues to find fortitude before time’s passage. Between vibrant melodies and worry-lashed lyrics, A Bit Of Previous looks to companionship and melody as bulwarks, from Talk To Me Talk To Me’s “ecstasy of company” to Come On Home’s buoyant spritz and A World Without You’s show of constancy.
Sarah Martin adds a deepening, impassioned plea for female safety on Reclaim The Night, while Working Boy In New York City offers a spry summation of an album flushed with wise, wistful pop charm, sung “to the hope inside you”.
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