Belle and Sebastian create a notebook full of pearls to prevent eternal puberty.

Surprisingly announced this Monday Belle & Sebastian new ones disktwice unexpected Considering that the previous one, “A bit of before,” came to light last May (seven years later, without distributing a disc of new songs in 2019, courtesy of the “Days of Bagnold Summer” soundtrack). There is greater editorial free will now than at any other time, and the Glasgow band is doing it voluntarily on an album that radiates a certain emotion. refreshing airHe develops a range of recordings, from “songwriter” to disco-pop, wrapped in a familiar air of intimacy and melancholy.

‘Late devs’ were designed in the same sessions as ‘Just before’, mid-2021, when the pandemic fog is still in place and flashes of light are just starting to appear. Perhaps the forced withdrawal led the group to a scrutiny about its essence and origins. Anyway, a plus naturalness In this line songbook, which begins with no inferiority and striking rudeness to last year’s: “Juliet nude,” in which Stuart Murdoch stands as an angry, bare-chested punk bard.

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Sarah Martin’s voice resonates seamlessly in “Give it some time,” a soothing pop hymn to old grudges, as Cobra shapes the normative balance of power among the band’s various members. And the lead role in ‘So in the moment’ with Stevie Jackson’s psychedelic reflections, ‘beach boy’ chorus and the line where he says he wants to “jump like Paul McCartney and Wings”. This the touch of masculine and feminine voices retain their bright dynamics: ‘Are You Following’ with a gripping ‘funky’ plot and Stuart-Sarah dialogue. Although Murdoch’s highest moment was reunited with an outsider, Tracyanne Campbell (from Camera Obscura), in ‘When the cynics stare from the wall’. A theme from Belle and Sebastian’s prehistory, the original from 1994, makes us wonder why it was discarded all this time.

Then there is catharsis cleaner Halftime “When I Was Young” is a very heartfelt journey, and other times’ “I don’t know what you see in me” (a song borrowed from his friend Pete Ferguson) is a successful return to synth-pop. a well-known artist like woohoh). And the closing piece, which begins directly with the chorus and whose timbre and optimistic spirit seems to invite us to respond and value what we have and “swing the spider webs” and archive impossible desires, the headline, because we still have a time for that.

That’s pretty much what the whole album is about ‘Late developers’, emotional lag or eternal adolescents. A syndrome that causes Belle and Sebastian to dig a few pearls out of their hands. inexhaustible song chest.

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