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The Boy with the Arab Strap
This highly anticipated album from Belle and Sebastian arrives with every hope satisfied. Each song is a cunning short story that wraps itself around you like a cozy couch throw. The loose theme running through this 12-song reverie is seduction. It plays out in both the drowsy sexual hopes of principal songwriter Stuart Murdoch's idle protagonists and the giddiness of bandmate Stevie Jackson's "Seymour Stein" and "Chickfactor," which document his bewitchment by the city of New York and its beautiful girls and florid pitchmen. The complex arrangements favor a whimsical diversity best experienced in "Sleep the Clock Around," which features synthesizer bloops, trumpets, and bagpipes! If you haven't figured out that this Scottish eight-piece deserves every iota of hype it's receiving, it's time to have your ears checked and your record collection gone over by a certified professional. --Lois Maffeo
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Tracks| 1 | It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career | | 2 | Sleep The Clock Around | | 3 | Is It Wicked Not To Care? | | 4 | Ease Your Feet In The Sea | | 5 | A Summer Wasting | | 6 | Seymour Stein | | 7 | A Space Boy Dream | | 8 | Dirty Dream Number Two | | 9 | The Boy With The Arab Strap | | 10 | Chickfactor | | 11 | Simple Things | | 12 | The Rollercoaster Ride |
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