Pros: Really good songwriting, and I like their style. Cons: It's slightly too samey.
Disclaimer: Those looking for a brief description of the album will find what their looking for in the "Review Body" section. The section titled "Track Reviews" is meant only for those who want to read detailed descriptions of the songs, and ...
Pros: Great songs; intelligent, touching lyrics; diverse arrangements; an indie pop masterwork. Cons: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Although this was, in actuality, the second album by Glasgow's indie popsters Belle and Sebastian, for most of the world, it was their first glimpse at the group. Their first album, the small masterpiece Tigermilk, was only printed in a 1,000 copy ...
Belle and Sebastian's startling second album arrived at the perfect time. Britpop had taken the charts by storm and indie music was beginning to infiltrate the mainstream. IYFS sounded so completely different, full of folk fuelled moments, insightful...
Pros: Ten wonderful songs; a moving collection of tunes from a wonderful band Cons: Not any
It can be galling to write reviews of classic albums and do them justice. I usually avoid if I can these wonderful records, as very often their legendary status and obvious quality speaks for itself. Still, if one can’t just state the obvious and ...
From the moment I heard Belle and Sebastian's second album, If You're Feeling Sinister( which was the first album, actually, available in wide distribution), I was hooked. Who was this incredible band with the catchy yet haunting melodies and...
Pros: deft melodies and a certain level of intelligence & edge Cons: will be dismissed by many as precious pastiche
The uninitiated can be forgiven for thinking Scottish folk-popsters Belle & Sebastian a Simon & Garfunkel-styled, two-stools-and-a-steel-string acoustic duo. In fact, however, they are a dual-gendered, seven-member collective with an almost...
Pros: Excellent songwriting, beautiful melodies Cons: This will definitely go over a few heads
The sophomore effort from this Scottish octet pulls you in immediately with its superb lyrics and lilting melodies. Setting it apart instantly, If You're Feeling Sinister champions the underdog while offering a panoramic view of the dejected and...
Pros: Subtle, mature songwriting with a beautiful sound. Cons: It had to end sometime.
I can't find a less-than-stellar song on this album. From the first quiet guitar strums of "The Stars of Track and Field" and the sweet vocals of shy janitor-turned-frontman, Stuart Murdoch, "If You're Feeling Sinister" unfurls some...
"Here on my own now after hours / Here on my own now on a bus / Think of it this way / You could either be successful or be us / With our winning smiles, and us / With our catchy tunes, and us / Now we're photogenic / You know, we don't stand a...
Pros: Every song Cons: that they may not achieve this again?
"It could have been a brilliant career, " a line that can no longer apply, due to the changing fortunes of this up-coming band. Voted (now notoriously) best newcomers at the '98 Brit awards, was an example of how they have achieved mainstream...
Pros: Will raise your expectations of your pop icons, along with your seratonin levels. Cons: The performing, recording, and releasing of this type of music is better left in the hands of qualified professionals.
Really, it's quite obvious. Belle and Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister (1997) contains some of the riskiest pop music made in the 1990s. Serious flirtations with folk music, poetry, and "artistic intent", by rigorous examples of certain...
Pros: Intelligent lyrics, achingly beautiful music Cons: It's all over far too soon
My first listen of Belle and Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister reminded me why I started buying records in the first place. There was a sense of excitement at the discovery of this truly remarkable record that I hadn't felt for over ten years....
Pros: Sensitive, beautiful songwriting Cons: I can't think of any
THE STARS OF TRACK AND FIELD
Subject: sex/promiscuity. Starts quietly, then builds slowly, getting more and more loud and intense. Full of witty lyrics, e.g. "And now he's throwing discus for Liverpool and Widnes" and "But when...
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