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| Guardian |
 Hearing the words "girl group" and "musical" in close proximity can chill you to the marrow: they somehow evoke the image of Claire Sweeney wowing the Aldershot Theatre Royal in a beehive wig. Nevertheless, both figure heavily in this project from Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, "a story set to music" influenced by "fabulous girl groups". There's nothing here to mystify fans of his day job: the vocalists are drawn from the ranks of sloe-eyed young ladies who have decorated Belle & Sebastian's sleeves, the heroine is a misunderstood, mentally unstable girl - misunderstood, mentally unstable girls being to Murdoch what cars are to Bruce Springsteen - and virtually every song could fit on to a Belle and Sebastian album. None of which is to suggest it isn't good: the tunes are uniformly fantastic and the arrangements are charming - particularly on the title track, a lovely confection of pizzicato strings with a melody just shy of Randy Newman's Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear....full text |
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| Boston |
| If the songwriter of any other band produced a solo collection of narratively linked songs for a hypothetical musical film with an entirely new cast of vocalists, you’d expect quite a departure. With Belle & Sebastian auteur Stuart Murdoch’s latest project, the shift barely registers. Here Murdoch employs a rotating cast of ringers from his Glaswegian orbit, including Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy, members of B&S, a 45-piece orchestra, and most notably, a variety of newcomers who auditioned through an online competition. The star is Irish singer Catherine Ireton, whose lilting ennui flits seamlessly through Murdoch’s world of yearning urban dreamers confused in equal parts by sex, love, and religion. If most B&S records can be considered indie-pop, short-story collections, you might call this a bildungsroman in shorts. And while the pages of this musical story are dog-eared and familiar, as with any favored paperback, that’s just a testament to its continued readability. (Out now)...full text |
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| Popmatters |
Stuart Murdoch’s latest project requires some explanation. It’s not a Belle & Sebastian album, but the members of Belle & Sebastian perform on it, and two of the 14 tracks are covers of the group’s songs. Murdoch sings on it, too; but doesn’t take the lead role that he does in his main gig. But just as much as Belle & Sebastian, and as much as the material he’s put out under his own name, God Help the Girl is a Stuart Murdoch project. This album—the first of a planned two from the recording sessions completed so far—is being billed as a “musical narrative”. What this means may be some combination of feature film, documentary, or just a fancy marketing-friendly framing of what is essentially a lovely stand-alone album. In any case, there’s a story.
The original advertisement, placed in the local paper, read “Girl singer needed for autumnal recording project. Must have a way with a tune.” And gave some clues: “Ballpark, Ronettes, Friend and Lover, Twinkle”. To put that in context Friend and Lover were a husband-and-wife folk duo from the ‘60s; the Ronettes were, of course, the seminal girl-group of the ‘60s; Twinkle and Ballpark are too obscure for me. Murdoch’s original idea may have been to create a ‘60s girl group in modern incarnation, but things have thankfully turned out somewhat closer to Murdoch’s own indie-literate sound. Well, when your backing band is Belle & Sebastian, you’re not going to stick to “Be My Baby”. ...full text |
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