Sinister: Ghost Write about Love

[kenneth.chu at xxx.uk]

Hi!

I bought the new B+S album today!

At the new Fopp on Gower Street, in fact, several doors down from home,
strolled in on the way to work, the song "Write about Love" was playing
in the shop but I couldn't find the actual album anywhere so I asked the
lady there "Hello, er.. Do you have a copy of the new Belle and
Sebastian album?" without acknowledging that it's being played quite
loudly all around the two of us, so she probably thought I was a noob.

She was nice enough though, found the album and handed in to me, then we
both walked back to the counter, and I handed it back to her, and paid
with my card, and she handed it back to me in a bag.  I feel this is the
start of a new romance.

There, I just wrote about love.

Very sad that there were no photos of Sally Sparrow on the inserts of
the CD, but beans + gf reading books in the mountains is sweet.


I'm still kind of sad that Belle and Sebastian albums no longer begin
with Sturan whispering a line of melody, but I like this album!  

John Wojcik wrote:
"Things changed, I changed."

This moved me somewhat.  I think about this perhaps every time B+S
release a new album.  Their music accompanied a significant part of my
life, afterall.  Things changed, I changed.  The band have changed, too.
I think it would be unfair/selfish/weird to expect the band to make
another "If You're Feeling Sinister".

I mean, really, I still listen to the red and the blue and the green
albums like always, but I would feel strange to hear a new song that's
about some kid being bullied in class, or having self-identity issues.
It would feel.. contrived?

To quote the song:
"and it's dumb, thinking of you like the way that you were"


The new album is lovely.  I listen to it and get the feeling like
meeting up with an old friend, one whom I don't often see nowadays
because, we both live busy lives, and perhaps we no longer have much in
common except for our shared fondness for one another, and for the past.
But it's still good to see them holding well, and share a bit of the
memory.  

I don't think my life signed with Rough Trade at quite the same time as
B+S did, I probably still whispered first lines to albums until perhaps
2007.  But now I'm writing about love, perhaps.

Writing about writing about love.


"I'm not living in the real world" is a complete rip off of
"Everything's Turning Out To Be Alright, Everything" by MJ Hibbett
though.  Fuck that.

Laters
Ken
P.S. "I want the world to stop" is totally "Knives Out" by Radiohead,
but it's really good!!
P.P.S. Looking forward to BOWLIE WEEKENDER 2 at minehead in December!!

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