so, 'i'm waking up to us' arrived on monday in its frankly disturbing cover. sarah looking decidedly ruffled in the back seat with a post-coitally relaxed beagle. richard grinning madly in tight trousers, holding a small fluffy thing in a vice-like grip. isobel in her leather and her drugged, come-to-bed eyes, fondling that poor westie's collar like she might be about to strangle him. conclusion: belle and sebastian have finally come out as the filthy-minded boy and girl racers we always suspected they were. but what about the music? i've been mostly listening to it over breakfast, which is a fairly depressing way to start the day if you pay attention to all the lyrics... IWUTU: 'new' b&s in the same vein as jonathan david, and pretty much just a different angle on the same themes as that song, ie. 'she's with a guy/who takes the prize for everything i ever showed her', 'she grew up and she left the rest of us', 'i haven't changed, how could i?' stuart's enunciation is certainly odd, he seems to be going for a sort of old-fashioned cabaret sound? shades of scott walker is matt's verdict. ILMC: a novelty record by any other name... an nice big romp instrumentally, but will always have its greatest impact live i think. who could forget stuart finally letting it all hang out and doing the special car-worshipping jig at RAH? MAE: yay, back to the old school. shades of 'century of fakers' as well as 'take your carriage clock'. the ending is particularly lovely, and you know that only stuart murdoch would produce those lyrics: 'the girl just wants to be/left alone with marx and engels for a while/she's writing in the style/of any riot girl'. so, 7/10 this time, murdoch. but detentions all round for lewd behaviour. any chart predictions? luv archel xxx *************************************** archel@iname.com For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords@bigfoot.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+