Apologies if this has already been mentioned. (I'm on the digest version so I don't get all the posts immediately. BTW Paul, I did use your cool new archive search to look for it in recent posts.) The CMJ web site (http://www.cmjmusic.com/Newpicks/cmj.html) featured the new EP as a "Pick of the Day" on Tuesday, November 4. In a gushing review, CMJ compares the music of B&S to migrating butterflies and refers to Stuart Murdoch as CUDDLY! Ha, wonder what he'd think of that! Read the full review below. -- Nicole (whose new work computer has a great set of speakers and she'd better get over the thrill of sound samples soon or she'll be rightfully fired.) _______________________________________ BELLE AND SEBASTIAN 3 ... 6 ... 9 Seconds of Light EP Jeepster, Unit 60, Canalot Production Studios, 222 Kensal Road, London W10 5BN U.K. Sound Samples: "A Century Of Fakers" (ISDN), "Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie" (ISDN), "A Century Of Fakers" (28.8), "Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie" (28.8) The seven members of Belle and Sebastian make incomparably beautiful music. Led by the cuddly Stuart Murdoch, the band's sublime pop flits from your speakers like so many migrating butterflies. This new EP's first song "A Century of Fakers," is a play on "A Century of Elvis," from the band's last EP, Lazy Line Painter Jane. The revamped lyrics and soft, enchanting melody are framed by carnival keyboards and a slowish cello. "Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie" begins with the ghostly guitar from spaghetti westerns, and continues with a rolling, wagon-wheel beat that would make Serge Gainsbourg proud. "Beautiful" is just that, a sad tale of blindness woven by Murdoch's lyrics while the instruments build and burst behind him. The last track is more railroad rhythm with trumpet, but listen further for the hidden acoustic track at the end, which appears like an epilogue for a dream and contains the near-perfect line "Belle and Sebastian/on the radio/and we're really sorry/for all the trouble we've caused." Apology accepted. by DAVID DAY From CMJ New Music Report Singles Section, Issue #545- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------