Nine albums in, Belle and Sebastian are both hitting their stride and settling into their roles as musical elder states-folk and standard bearers for a particularly literate strain of melodic indie pop. They’ve made the transition from their early Radio 1 sessions for John Peel and the Evening Session to the Radio 2 playlist with no signs of wear or tear along the way.
Singer and songwriter Stuart Murdoch remains both a driving force and a modest presence within the band, and is one of the only pop stars to have written and directed a musical film - 2014’s sparky God Help The Girl - without making a song and dance about it. Their latest album, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is a breezy, confident affair, containing all of the giddy tunefulness of their best work. It is, therefore, extremely well-suited to a festival singalong this Glastonbury.
Nine albums in, Belle and Sebastian are both hitting their stride and settling into their roles as musical elder states-folk and standard bearers for a particularly literate strain of melodic indie pop. They’ve made the transition from their early Radio 1 sessions for John Peel and the Evening Session to the Radio 2 playlist with no signs of wear or tear along the way.
Singer and songwriter Stuart Murdoch remains both a driving force and a modest presence within the band, and is one of the only pop stars to have written and directed a musical film - 2014’s sparky God Help The Girl - without making a song and dance about it. Their latest album, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is a breezy, confident affair, containing all of the giddy tunefulness of their best work. It is, therefore, extremely well-suited to a festival singalong this Glastonbury.
