<html><head></head><BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><font size=2 color="#000000" face="Arial">Hi everybody! <br>I've just joined Sinister, and I'm sending the translation of the Brazilian<br>article about "If You're Feeling Sinister", which Ivo Augusto has talked<br>some days ago. (Yes, I'm Brazilian too, and I'm an Ivo's great friend and er...fan!).<br>Please note that I kept two mistakes from the original text: the author<br>(Zeca Camargo) says that they have two singles (instead of 3 EPS, right?)<br>and he really wrote "Lazy Pine..."<br><br>Fabiana :o)<br>PS: This article takes almost the whole page of the magazine, and it also<br>has a picture, with the text: "Cover from Belle and Sebastian. Any<br>similarity with the Smiths...<br><font face="Avalon"><br><br><b>MISSING THE 80's<br></b><br>Welcome to the 80's. Be cool, not those 80's from Kajagoogoo, Duran Duran,<br>Spandau Ballet and Hayzee Fantasyee. Welcome to the 80's frequented by bands<br>like Felt, Pale Fountains, Weather Prophets, James (before-Madchester) and,<br>of course, The Smiths – who used to fill our hearts with hope that one day<br>the god pop music would triumph.<br>It was not exactly what happened, but that spirit is more than alive on the<br>weird group Belle and Sebastian. <i>If You're Feeling Sinister </i>is the most<br>nostalgic release from 1997. And the good is that this Scottish from<br>Glasgow (Stuart Murdoch) and his troupe are able of something even better<br>inside this nostalgia: not to look like nostalgic ones, but like some who<br>innovate, with a collection of ten tracks able to light the spirit.<br>Belle and Sebastian go over themselves, creating something magic which, in<br>English, is called hook. One thing that sticks immediately on your head, a<br>instantaneous and perfect chorus, able to make you start singing "Fox on<br>the Snow" by the roads of Turkey without any notion of chords.<br>Keeping the music simple and risking some strings here and there,<br>Murdoch doesn't stop his production. Besides the album, this year the<br>leader of Belle and Sebastian has already released two singles with four<br>previously unreleased tracks each: "Dog on Wheels" and "Lazy Pine Painter<br>Jane". Any fortune that you spend in CD importing stores with these<br>preciousness will be very good used money.<br><br><br><br><br><br><font size=2><br></p>
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