Here's the Tom Cox Guardian review that should have gone in last week. Isn't he wicked? Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk (Jeepster) 3/5 stars The most irritating thing about Belle And Sebastian?s Stuart Murdoch is that, like Morrissey in the 80s, he seems to be on a preplanned mission to rescue his own misfit army from drab bedroom oblivion. Fat girls with lisps, wilting boys with eye patches, tank-top nobodies with Saturday jobs in Debenhams ? Murdoch sings to them as Wimp Supreme, self-consciously liberating his "children" ? and never more effetely than on this formerly-rare 1996 debut. As frustratingly pasty, winsome and intermittently limp as a union between Nick Drake, The Left Banke and a 1982 primary school assembly, Tigermilk is a hard record to love without a burning sadistic desire to steal its National Health glasses and kick its lunchbox around the playground. (TC) Who said the new album is going to be all Stuart Murdoch songs? I think this is not true. Wot no Winter Wooskie? It's funny all that stuff about Monica Queen being the Trio girl. I think I had always had the connection loitering in my mind, but I needed Chris Leonard to tease it out of my consciousness. Sadly, references to Trio adverts will be lost on the very young and all those who don't come from this country. But I don't pity you. Gratuitous use of late 20th century phrase and fable is not an altogether good thing, especially when it's of the 'Ooh bring back Spangles and Jamie and the Magic Torch' variety. Yet Chris carries it off with style, as always. Better than Staurtemm does with his clumsy 'Man about the House' references, if you ask me. Perhaps he could delegate TV nostalgia lyrics to Chris. It's about time the band took on another member. Nikki xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+