Late Developers:
01 Juliet Naked02 Give a Little Time03 When We Were Very Young04 Will I Tell You a Secret05 So in the Moment06 The Evening Star07 When You’re Not With Me08 I Don’t Know What You See in Me09 Do You Follow10 When the Cynics Stare Back From the Wall11 Late Developers
Out January 13, 2023 via Matador.
A sequel to A Bit of Previous and from the same sessions.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 05:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vxHl57syY
Late Developers often feels like a summing-up statement for Belle and Sebastian’s 25-year-plus career. “I do feel that maybe we’re at the end of an arc or a chapter or an era or something,” Murdoch says. “I think, in a sense, putting these two LPs out might be the last thing we’ll do for a while.”
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 05:55 (one year ago) link
Worrying that the first track appears to be named after a Nick Hornby novel.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 10:55 (one year ago) link
Mad how bad that new song is!
I have met Stuart Murdoch several times socially and he always comes across a little vague and lost. Not interested in any music (or anything else) that you wouldn't expect him to be, saying the same things he probably said 20 years ago. He'll take maybe a tablespoon of wine in a glass and somehow sip at that for an hour, and all the while it's obvious he cannot wait until he's done enough time and can get away. I sympathise with this awkardness very much. But it makes it impossible for me to listen to modern Belle & Sebastian, smothered as it is in the same sense of enervation set to weirdly listless, straight "pop".
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
Ha, I prefer that single to most of “Previous”
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link
Been quite open to a lot of their slicker stuff but what we have here is Eiffel 65
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 00:05 (one year ago) link
I like it! To me it seems like it's on a continuum with "Electronic Renaissance"
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
"La ba dee, la dab a deela dab a dee, la dab a dah"would make a great inner arm script tattoo.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
I'm loving this album!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 January 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
and I don't hear enervation at all
could not make it through the last album, but kind of liked the first song on this one.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 14 January 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2211519/belle-and-sebastian-cancel-north-american-tour-due-to-stuart-murdochs-health/news/
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 19:30 (one year ago) link
That's too bad. I also heard somewhere else (maybe it was this thread or maybe it was somewhere on social media) that Stuart intimated this might be the last B&S album for a while. Hoping it's not as serious as all that intimates.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
Heard the new song, or a new song, on 6music. It didn't sound good.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 22:50 (one year ago) link
I like both of these new albums now, wasn't expecting to. I don't love them but I like them fine enough.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 23:17 (one year ago) link
i believe Stuart has ehlers danlos syndrome, poor fellow, hope he turns out alright.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
New album is an unexpected kick. Sorry to hear that Stuart's ill.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link
Sad news, hoping Stuart recovers ASAP.
I'm hearing "I Don't Know What You See In Me" for the first time and getting T Swift 1989 vibes.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 01:19 (one year ago) link