Sinister: fyhcywlap review in jane

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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
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