Belle and Sebastian IT's cool when a band knows that they're so good, they can dare people to like them. Case in point: Glaswegian popsters Belle and Sebastian. (1) Frontman Stuart Murdoch has never done an interview. (2)He grants his inferior sidepeople a couple of awful tracks per CD (see "Beyond the Sunrise" here). (3) He's usually as wispy as a drooled-on zwieback forgotten under a high chair. You'll gladly suffer, though, because the reward is so great. Belle and Sebastian's songs are diary pages from an asthmatic camper who spent the summer with a magnifying glass and a broken heart. Whether Stuar's glumly posing as a date-raped student in "The Chalet LInes", parodying his wimpy image on "NIce Day for a Sulk," or trading versus with bandmate Isobel Campbell on the piano-and string-driven, "Don't Go Breaking My Hear" update "Women's Realm," he's always brilliant. 4 out of 4 or "sweet!" -Jedd Johnson ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+