A time capsule presenting the best of Belle and Sebastian as of 2019, What to Look for in Summer is a double album that should appeal to die-hard fans, win some new one, and simply make for a run of highly entertaining listening.

Perhaps the most most successful B&S since The Life Pursuit.

Murdoch’s inherent sadness helped add to the group’s appeal.

Our Top 25 Songs of 2015.

A few years ago, Spectrum Culture debuted a new type of feature called PLAYLIST. The idea is simple enough: make a playlist (with mix tapes and CDs becoming so unfortunately passé) centered around one artist or band with a deep catalog. There is only one parameter, however. Our charge is to limit our playlist to just one song per album …

[xrr rating=4.0/5]Already it’s easy to tell that Belle and Sebastian’s latest record, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, will be remembered as their “dance album,” an outlier in a discography rife with low-key acoustic chamber pop and twee indie rock classics. Yes, the band makes a remarkable transformation on the album, trading their delicate folk stylings for heady synthesizers, plucky …

[xrr rating=2.0/5]Eve (Emily Browning) is a young woman whose low self esteem is so incapacitating she’s institutionalized. She’s also a coy, calculating chanteuse with the confidence to front a twee indie pop band. Eve is both things before the opening credits of God Help the Girl are over, and that’s just part of the film’s problem. Belle and Sebastian front …

[xrr rating=3.0/5]Whether under Jeepster or Rough Trade Records, Belle and Sebastian’s songs have always evoked nostalgia for times we barely remember – if they existed at all – idealized childhood memories, faded photographs and an unattainable, eternal summer. 2003’s Dear Catastrophe Waitress marked the beginning of a new era for the Scottish indie rockers, both in sound and in management. …