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BELLE & SEBASTIAN - The Life Pursuit
| MusicOMH.com | | I'm bowled over. After the radical - and triumphal - departure from the much-loved fey indie pop that characterised early albums to the Trevor Horn-produced Dear Catastrophe Waitress, one wondered where Belle and Sebastian would go next. The answer is everywhere, but the amazing thing is that The Life Pursuit, a diverse showcase of brilliance, is still unmistakably Belle and Sebastian. Simply couldn't be anyone else, in fact....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | Have you ever paused to consider Belle and Sebastian as the Jam Master Jay to Franz's Fiddy? You know, the elder statesmen of the genre, laying down all those important foundations that let the latter even have a cat's grace of making the charts, and then went as far as to put them on physically. The latter exploded into platinum success, but you just can't help but feel that they've somehow betrayed the former's vision....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | A little production magic goes a long way; at least, that appears to be the case here. For their follow up to the inconsistently great Dear Catastrophe Waitress, the perma-charming Belle And Sebastian have roped in Air and Beck producer Tony Hoffer; what’s more, they recorded The Life Pursuit under the Californian sun in Los Angeles. The results are as blindingly bright as the environment they were created in....full text |
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