Hello, Here is a copy a B&S review ftom WWW.MUSE.IE read on. Ciaran............................. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap (Jeepster) You've never seen them all together in the one photograph, they've rarely played live up to now, and they don't engage in very many interviews. Yet somehow Belle & Sebastian's folk-pop cult has spread to the mind of every cognizant indie-kid and the heart of every romantic fool. Their enigma isn't built on myth though but rather a back catalogue of two fine albums (the first of which is impossibly rare) and a selection box of non-album track EPs, such as the delicious Arthur Lee-esque West Coast Soul and mariachi trumpets of "Dog On Wheels". All of this has pre-established a revered status for the third album from B&S. Just as well that it's their best one so far. "The Boy With The Arab Strap", a teasingly in-jokeish reference to their fellow Glaswegians, manages to locate some of principal songwriter Stuart Murdoch's finest tunes alongside four contributions from three of the other seven full-time B&S-ers. In the latter category, guitarist Stevie Jackson includes two hazy Sixties' pop songs, including his lonesome tale of being the only band member to miss being wined and dined by legendary A&R king "Seymour Stein". And "A Space Boy Dream" is the funky spoken-word and beats combo work of literary-bassist Stuart David a.k.a. Looper. The non-Murdoch contributions admittedly offer new and fresh dimensions to the B&S structure. But when the angelic boy wonder himself is on the sort of form that breeds the oscillating folk-bliss of the title track and the dizzy Northern Soul reverie of "Dirty Dream Number Two", then one must still acknowledge the creative drive behind them. Not to mention the cool all-hands-on-deck swagger of "Sleep The Clock Around" and "The Rollercoaster Ride", with their varying concoctions of bag-pipes, Moogs, strings, trumpets and divinely born pop melodies. You should buy this. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+