Sinister: For all of you that dont live/work/exist in London....

[Pete Ramsdale]

......here is the review of Tigermilk from the Metro:

Belle and Sebastian inspire an evangelical devotion in those who get
them, and contemptuous cries to bring back the Sex Pistols in those
who don't. The long-awaited CD edition of their first album Tigermilk,
recorded in five days in 1996, is released today, and although it
compromises the mythical status that hangs over Belle and Sebastian
like a halo (the limited edition vinyl copies alledgedly change hands
for £800), it also disrupts the idea in the opposition camp that Belle
and Sebastian are little more than a bunch of fairies at the bottom of
the garden.

I'm with the evangelicals. Tigermilk is a bit like a piece of silver,
an album that becomes more lustrous with familiarity. These are songs
with resounding strength and depth, feistily pretty rather than
soppily beautiful. They possess a rhapsodic coherence that, quite
simply, makes sense. And each is a beguilingly quiet horror story of
abuse, insanity and alienation that belies the exquisite sound in
which they are crafted. There are damp moments - notably the jarring
scarth of Electronic Renaissance - but every other song, from the edgy
folk-pop swing of Expectations to the fragile We Rule the School,
weaves a sublime but disquieting spell. Such is the religion of Belle
and Sebastian, however, that all this is either preaching to the
converted, or a pointless ramble at those who couldn't care less.

p.
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