Belle and Sebastian - A Bit of Previous

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.”

Worrying that the first track appears to be named after a Nick Hornby novel.

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".

Ha, I prefer that single to most of “Previous”

Been quite open to a lot of their slicker stuff but what we have here is Eiffel 65

I like it! To me it seems like it's on a continuum with "Electronic Renaissance"

"La ba dee, la dab a dee
la dab a dee, la dab a dah"
would make a great inner arm script tattoo.

I'm loving this album!

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.

https://www.stereogum.com/2211519/belle-and-sebastian-cancel-north-american-tour-due-to-stuart-murdochs-health/news/

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.

Heard the new song, or a new song, on 6music. It didn't sound good.

I like both of these new albums now, wasn't expecting to. I don't love them but I like them fine enough.

i believe Stuart has ehlers danlos syndrome, poor fellow, hope he turns out alright.

New album is an unexpected kick. Sorry to hear that Stuart's ill.

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.