Posted by Jason Diamond As we ready ourselves for the newest addition to the Belle and Sebastian catalog, Write About Love, it’s time to ask ourselves: does anyone in the history of pop music name check quite like Stuart Murdoch? Hell, even the name of the band itself is a nod to something. Even though songwriting credits are never put on B&S albums, Murdoch’s signature usually includes a sexually confused character, Morrissey-esque dark humor, and a ton of little references […]
Are Belle and Sebastian Trying to Tell Us Something?
(via Tiny Mix Tapes)
“I’m not as sad as Doestoevsky, I’m not as clever as Mark Twain”
I’ve drifted off in thought and considered what my life over the last ten years would be like without Stuart Murdoch, and it was pretty grim. That would mean that first off, I’d never have heard his band Belle and Sebastian, a group I have been obsessed with since my first listening to (what I consider to be their best album) Tigermilk so many moons ago. It also means I might never have worked with reckless abandon, in those dark […]