Belle and Sebastian annoncerer deres 10. album – albummet A Bit Of Previous er ude d. 6. maj

I dag vender Belle and Sebastian tilbage med den glædelige nyhed, at de udgiver deres 10. album, og deres første studiealbum i 7 år, A Bit Of Previuos, som udkommer d. 6. maj på Matador / Playground Music.
 
Sammen med annonceringen udgiver bandet førstesinglen ’Unnecessary Drama’, om hvilken forsanger Stuart Murdoch fortæller:
“The song is about a young person experimenting in being a human again after a forced hiatus. The person is weighing up whether or not it’s worth the mess! Still, you dip your toe in and it becomes delicious, and you get too much of it. Between trouble and nothing, we still choose the trouble."
 
Lyt til ’Unnecessary Drama’ her.
 
A Bit Of Previous er indspillet i Belle and Sebastians hjemby i Glasgow, da deres planer om at blive i Los Angeles i foråret 2020 blev umuliggjort af pandemien. Om indspilningerne i Glasgow fortæller Murdoch:
“We did it together, us and the city. This record was the first ‘full’ LP recording for B&S in Glasgow since Fold Your Hands Child, 1999. We clocked in every morning, we played our songs, we wrote together, we tried new things, we took the proverbial lump of clay, and we threw it every day.”
 
Resultatet er blevet et af de mest diverse, hands-on og et af de mest spændende albums i bandets katalog. Albummet er selvproduceret og selvindspilllet (med bidrag fra Brian McNiell, Matt Wiggins, Kevin Burleigh og Shawn Everett).
A Bit Of Previous indeholder lidt af det hele, og en hel del af det, der gør Belle and Sebastian så specielle og vedvarende. Det er et band, der takler alder og det at blive ældre med ynde, ærbødighed, musikalsk bravado og lyrisk nøjagtighed. De er et band med endeløs energi og en evne til hele tiden at kunne forny sig. 
 
Albummets titel indeholder en smule Buddhisme – noget der i stigende grad har haft en indflydelse på Murdochs livssyn i de seneste år og som er blevet manifesteret via hans populære ugentlige guidede online meditationsessions. Han forklarer:
“There is a firmly held belief in Buddhism that we have been reborn so many times and in so many guises that if we look around us, we are bound to see a person who has been our mother in a past life. And we are surrounded by people who have been our children. If we truly had that in our minds and in our hearts, we would drop the prejudice we had: our attitude to strangers and difficult people would alter emphatically.”
 
I 2023 begiver Belle and Sebastian sig ud på en Europaturné, hvor de blandt andet ligger vejen forbi Danmark når de gæster Vega i København d. 19. januar.
 
A Bit Of Previous Track List
1. Young And Stupid
2. If They're Shooting At You
3. Talk To Me Talk To Me
4. Reclaim The Night
5. Do It For Your Country
6. Prophets On Hold
7. Unnecessary Drama
8. Come On Home
9. A World Without You
10. Deathbed Of My Dreams
11. Sea Of Sorrow
12. Working Boy In New York City
 

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