Belle And Sebastian – What To Look For In Summer (2-CD)
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Stuart Murdoch and company have always thrived in the live setting, where their chamber-pop arrangements breathe differently and the audience becomes part of the quiet drama. Recorded across multiple continents in 2019, this document captures a band three decades deep in their catalog finding new emotional weight in old songs, a trick that only works when the songwriting was bulletproof to begin with.
Matador Records presents Belle and Sebastian's What to Look for in Summer, a new live album gathering choice selections from the band's 2019 world tour, including last summer's epic "Boaty Weekender" cruise. All live records are a time capsule to some extent, but Belle and Sebastian's What To Look For In Summer is perhaps a bit more evocative than originally planned. Neither a retrospective nor a back-door greatest-hits, What To Look For In Summer is the sound of a band that's always moving forward, a picture of Belle and Sebastian in 2019 that gives equal weight to early days ("My Wandering Days Are Over," "Seeing Other People") and recent years ("Poor Boy," "We Were Beautiful"), with a track selection Murdoch says was almost random. Also included are three songs from 2000's Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (which the band played in full at the Boaty Weekender).
Tracklist
Disc 1
Disc 2
UPC: 191401163828
Label: Matador Records
Release Date: 12.11.20
Format: CD