The Boy With the Arab Strap

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Description: Amazon.co.uk Review This highly anticipated album from Belle and Sebastian arrives with every hope satisfied. Each song is a cunning short story that wraps itself around you like a cosy couch throw. The loose theme running through this 12-song reverie is seduction. It plays out in both the drowsy sexual hopes of principal songwriter Stuart Murdoch's idle protagonists and the giddiness of bandmate Stevie Jackson's "Seymour Stein" and "Chickfactor", which document his bewitchment by the city of New York, its beautiful girls and florid pitchmen. The complex arrangements favour a whimsical diversity best experien ... (more)

Manufacturer: Jeepster
Release date: 1 September 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5027731785032

Tags: 1998 (2), Cd (2), Scotland (2), Indie Pop (2), Baroque Pop (2), Indie (1), Indie Rock (1), Britpop (1), Alternative (1), Pop (1), Scottish (1), 1990s (1), Folk Rock (1), Chris (1), Twee (1)

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My Favorite Albums - 1998 (30 music items)

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Best Albums of 1998 (75 music items)

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