My, my Sinister! Young Mr Stoutish said we should send in reviews of DICKYWUSS. I figured, "Hey! I write reviews! I can do that tout suite!" You see, part of my job at my radio station (WXDU) involves me reviewing new Music, and of course I snagged the new B&S when it came in. So here's my station review, hopefully useful, but concise enough to fit on the cover of the CD. I'd be interested in what you collectively think. Hugs to Girls and Kisses to Boys, GayJay PS: Ifn y'all like this review, there's plenty more just like at www.jaylemurphreviews.blogspot.com... The Review: Artist: Belle and Sebastian Album: Dear Catastrophe Waitress Label: Rough Trade Rating: 4.5 *s out of 5 Whoo-hoo! A new start for B&S works wonders! Moving from their long-time label Jeepster, finding a new producer in the form of Trevor Horne (yes, the one who did TaTu) and having ditched Bel Campbell from their line-up during their US tour last year have all combined for their best album in a while. Horne lends them some forgotten hader rock sounds (Yes, forgotten. Keep in mind the band was born as a Metal Band called Rhode Island. Yes it was.) that create some great pop music like the title track, track one and eleven. They keep a strong grip on the pop sounds they're famous for, but tweak them a bit. There's all the orchestral strength you remember, but it shifts into brassy, more voiced sounds rather than oodles of strings. (2) And just cause they're Belle and Sebastian, there's some great twee stuff -- Lord Anthony, track 9, has been done for at least 5 years live and finally get the studio treatment it deserves. It's a heart-breaking little tale of Anthony, beat up at school and crossdressing... The .5 reduction comes from the Noise Factor Horne brings with him: in several tracks, esp. in the last track (the poorest outing), it stops being The Funk and starts to be The Pest. But still A Damn Fine Album. Worth all those days in 97 I spent drooling over Stuart Murdoch. All Tracks clean Recommended tracks 11!!, 1, 9 Play if you like: Good music. This has it all. -- "The Posby falls into a Trance In which it does a little Dance." Edward Gorey _________________________________________________________________ Add MSN 8 Internet Software to your existing Internet access and enjoy patented spam protection and more. Sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/byoa +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+