If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

If You're Feeling Sinister
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Artist: Belle & Sebastian
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1999-06-23
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Stars of Track and Field
  2. Seeing Other People
  3. Me and the Major
  4. Like Dylan in the Movies
  5. Fox in the Snow
  6. Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying
  7. If You're Feeling Sinister
  8. Mayfly
  9. Boy Done Wrong Again
  10. Judy and the Dream of Horses

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Free Music Review: Classic
Hit: 5 Stars

The problem with a lot of this 1960s folk/jazz/lounge style when it origonated was that it was fragmaented--stuck on lost soundtracks and an odd song on a Nick Drake album. Great as the style was, it was underplayed and underexposed.

In the 1990s, the genre got the workout they deserved thanks to bands like Stereolab, Komeda, and, among countless others, Belle and Sabastian.

If You're Feeling Sinister is the album that made this band a permanent underground fixture. Belle and Sabastin specialize in a jazzy, sophistacted accustic music. Some of the drum styings--bossa nova, samba, and other non-latin flourishes-are dervied from coctail jazz, but the dense lyrics, and a singer that can sound like Ray Davies AND Nick Drake, lift this far beyond a retro exersize.

This is autumnal folk, and works on the senses and not the head. The reason such music worked in film and advertising way back when was that it invokes emotions--a walk in the fall woods, a glass of good wine--that are immediately reassuring. Despite a modern, edgey and litterate cinicism, If Your Feeling Sinister still has plenty of this 60s innocence. It is the real deal and works on you as such. No joking chease when it comes to this music

Highly reccomended

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Whimsy and preciousness is an integral part of 'If You're Feeling Sinister', along with clever wit and gentle, intricate arrangements - a wonderful blend of the Smiths and Simon & Garfunkel, to be reductive. A Matador Records release.
There are several schools of thought about Syd Barrett, the early leader of Pink Floyd. Some think he was a genius songwriter, even when he was utterly whacked out. Others think he was just a druggie tosspot (those people are wrong). If you subscribe to the former school, you need to hear Belle and Sebastian, who seem to inhabit a musical universe close to Syd's. Songs seem to fly off the cuff, as attractive as a summer day when you were 16. We're not talking self-conscious strangeness here, but just natural, organic weirdness with melodies that make these songs work. --Chris Nickson

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