Biography
Decamped for the duration of recording to Los Angeles, Belle and Sebastian have found the focus to fully realise what the late John Peel correctly identified as their ?surprising muscularity? at Glastonbury three years ago.Of course, to those paying attention, it was always clear that in chief songwriter Stuart Murdoch we had a national treasure in waiting. Perceptive, humane and hilarious, his writing has always had a voice as discernible as a Cocker or Morrissey, but perhaps the bushel obscuring it was a little more, uh, capacious. On ?The Life Pursuit? this individuality seems to have reached its apotheosis of heartbreak and humour.
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