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Belle and Sebastian

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What started as a government-funded recording project by a group of shut-ins with no aspirations beyond getting a few songs recorded grew into one of the world's most lasting and beloved indie pop bands. Glasgow's Belle and Sebastian began inauspiciously in 1994 and quickly caught on worldwide with their lushly orchestrated chamber pop tunes built on unabashedly twee sentiments and melodies as delicate as they were captivating. The rushed, low-budget production of the group's 1996 debut, Tigermilk, didn't detract from the gentle power of the songs, and probably added to the charm of Belle and Sebastian's affable but slightly warped musical personality. The band quickly outgrew their humble beginnings in spite of themselves, turning in classic albums like If You're Feeling Sinister and The Boy with the Arab Strap one after another throughout the '90s. They continued to evolve as the years went on with consistently strong albums like 2010's Write About Love and stylistically diverse efforts like 2022's A Bit of Previous and 2023's Late Developers, released within months of one another.

Initially inspired by the instrumentation of '60s chamber pop as much as underground college rock favorites like Felt and Orange Juice, Belle and Sebastian formed around the bookish and sometimes salacious songwriting of Stuart Murdoch in 1994. Murdoch was hoping only to document some of the songs he had been writing while suffering a years-long bout of chronic fatigue syndrome. After a Scottish welfare program for unemployed musicians offered to fund the recording of an album on the strength of Murdoch's demos, he hastily assembled a makeshift band to track 1995's Tigermilk in just three days. For the project, he assembled a seven-piece band featuring himself on guitar and vocals, and choosing and recruiting members by instinct in a local all-night café in late 1995. He eventually found Sarah Martin (violin), Stevie Jackson (guitar), Chris Geddes (keyboards), Stuart David (bass), Richard Colburn (drums), and Isobel Campbell (cello). All seven members were college students, and all agreed that the idea behind the group was to stay on a small scale, to keep it as a project and not let the band run their lives; they even assumed they would release two albums and break up.

In May 1996, the songs from Belle and Sebastian's hasty first sessions were released as their debut album Tigermilk on Electric Honey Records in a vinyl-only edition of 1,000 copies. Tigermilk unexpectedly became a sensation, earning terrific word of mouth throughout England. As a result, the band became slightly more than a school project -- it became an actual band. Not quite comfortable with this new level of publicity, the bandmembers were cagey about sharing their identities in the earliest days, submitting publicity photos featuring people that weren't in the group and preferring to perform in odd venues, playing not only the standard coffeehouses and cafés, but also homes, church halls, and libraries. Second album If You're Feeling Sinister was released on the independent Jeepster label in November 1996. By the time the record was released in America on the EMI subsidiary the Enclave, it had earned considerable critical acclaim in the U.K. -- not only from music weeklies but from newspapers like The Sunday Times and magazines like The Face -- and a large cult following; by some accounts, Tigermilk was being sold for as much as 75 pounds. Over the course of 1997, word of mouth continued to grow in America, even as the band pulled out of an American tour because the Enclave went bankrupt and closed.

As the group's cult continued to build in 1997, Belle and Sebastian released three EPs -- Dog on Wheels (May), Lazy Line Painter Jane (July), and 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light (October). Each subsequent EP placed higher on the indie charts and received much critical acclaim. By the end of the year, the band finalized an American deal with Matador Records, issuing The Boy with the Arab Strap in September 1998. The following year saw the eagerly anticipated, wide re-release of Tigermilk, the album that started it all. Following completion of 2000's Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant, Stuart David left Belle and Sebastian to focus full-time on his solo project, Looper. In 2001, the group released two EPs -- Jonathan David and I'm Waking Up to Us -- and recorded the soundtrack for Todd Solondz's film Storytelling. Just before the soundtrack's release in spring 2002, Belle and Sebastian embarked on a comprehensive tour of the United States and Canada before returning to Europe for the summer festival season. Midway through the tour, Isobel Campbell left the band, citing the usual differences.

Another major change soon took place when Belle and Sebastian left Jeepster and Matador to sign with Rough Trade, with their next record, late-2003's Dear Catastrophe Waitress, produced by the inimitable Trevor Horn (who also produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Yes, and scores of others). The record spawned the brilliant "Step into My Office" and "I'm a Cuckoo" singles, the latter of which was the group's biggest U.K. hit, reaching number 14 in early 2004. After a long worldwide tour that found Belle and Sebastian reaching new levels of success, the band retired to Scotland and began preparing for the recording of their fifth album. The Life Pursuit was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Tony Hoffer and was released in 2006 by Rough Trade in the U.K. The group were back with Matador in the U.S.

After a tour that included a sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl, the band took a well-deserved break. Apart from the release of The BBC Sessions (by Matador and Jeepster) in 2008, no Belle and Sebastian records were released until 2010. During the hiatus, Murdoch spent time on his God Help the Girl project (which included much of the band as well), and Jackson and Kildea toured and recorded with the legendary Scottish indie pop group the Vaselines, who had re-formed in 2009. After spending the early part of 2010 recording with Tony Hoffer, the band released Write About Love on October 12, 2010.

Write About Love performed well -- it peaked at eight on the U.K. charts and at 15 on Billboard in the U.S. -- and after its release, Belle and Sebastian entered a quiet period. They re-emerged in 2013, touring the U.S. prior to the August release of The Third Eye Centre, a collection of B-sides and non-LP tracks released between 2006 and 2010. A few more shows followed in 2014, along with the release of Murdoch's film adaptation of God Help the Girl -- he turned the side project into a musical -- and the group announced they were beginning work on their ninth studio album. Preceded by the single "The Party Line," the Ben H. Allen-produced Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance appeared in January 2015.

Belle and Sebastian returned in December 2017 with How to Solve Our Human Problems, the first in a series of three EPs released in succession. All three How to Solve Our Human Problems EPs were released as a collected set in February 2018. In 2019, Belle and Sebastian revisited a handful of old songs as part of their soundtrack for the coming-of-age comedy Days of the Bagnold Summer. When the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the band's plans for touring and the recording of a new album, they used the unexpected time to work meticulously on a live album. Released in December 2020, the double live album What to Look for in Summer gathered the best of multi-tracked recordings of Belle and Sebastian's 2019 tour dates, with a set list equally weighted with fan favorites and more obscure songs.

A Bit of Previous arrived in April 2022; it was the group's first proper studio album in over seven years, despite their activity and frequently released projects. The set was self-recorded and self-produced by Belle and Sebastian with occasional input from Kevin Burleigh, Shawn Everett, Brian McNeil, and Matt Wiggins. It was also the first album recorded in the band's native home of Glasgow since 2000's Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant, tracked at their practice space with safety precautions put in place to avoid sickness related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their next album, Late Developers, arrived just months later in January 2023. The songs from Late Developers were recorded in the same sessions that produced A Bit of Previous, with the intention of being surprise-released shortly afterward as a second album. The LP continued the stylistic dabbling of its companion piece, and included the first instance of a song co-written by someone outside of the band with help from Wuh Oh's Pete Ferguson on the synthy "I Don't Know What You See in Me." Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell also contributed guest vocals on the track "When the Cynics Stare Back from the Wall," a tune written in 1994 before the group formed. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Fred Thomas, Rovi

Total plays

704.5 million
Updated on 2025-02-27

Country

United Kingdom

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Monthly listeners

1,232,009

Followers

694,807

Top Cities

  1. United Kingdom
    39,006 listeners
  2. Australia
    16,355 listeners
  3. United States
    16,189 listeners
  4. United Kingdom
    16,409 listeners
  5. United States
    15,142 listeners

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Stop, Look And Listen - Edit
Stop, Look And Listen - Edit
411,736 4:07 2013-08-26
Another Day, Another Night
Another Day, Another Night
401,627 1:31 2019-09-13
I Suppose That Was A Prayer
I Suppose That Was A Prayer
399,932 1:27 2014-01-01
Night Walk
Night Walk
395,452 2:07 2002-06-03
Judy is a Dick Slap
Judy is a Dick Slap
394,452 4:06 2000-01-01
When The Cynics Stare Back From The Wall
When The Cynics Stare Back From The Wall
393,506 4:21 2023-01-13
A Loving Kind Of Boy
A Loving Kind Of Boy
392,696 2:08 2014-01-01
Mr Richard
Mr Richard
388,342 2:34 2006-04-03
The Colour's Gonna Run
The Colour's Gonna Run
387,881 2:28 2019-09-13
I'm a Cuckoo - Single Version
I'm a Cuckoo - Single Version
384,719 3:58 2004-02-16
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I Just Want Your Jeans
376,908 3:26 2014-01-01
I Know I Have To Eat
I Know I Have To Eat
366,711 1:19 2014-01-01
Slow Graffiti
Slow Graffiti
365,199 3:08 2008-01-01
The Catwalk Of The Dukes
The Catwalk Of The Dukes
358,396 0:38 2014-01-01
Wait And See What The Day Holds
Wait And See What The Day Holds
355,599 3:19 2019-09-13
The Evening Star
The Evening Star
338,795 4:25 2023-01-13
The God Of Music
The God Of Music
334,539 0:39 2014-01-01
Do You Follow
Do You Follow
325,917 4:19 2023-01-13
We Were Never Glorious
We Were Never Glorious
321,124 5:23 2019-09-13
Olympic Village, 6AM
Olympic Village, 6AM
318,281 3:29 2016-08-15
Partick Whistle
Partick Whistle
317,806 1:14 2014-01-01
Wrong Love
Wrong Love
315,893 3:31 2008-01-01
Working Boy in New York City
Working Boy in New York City
315,653 4:16 2022-05-06
Come On Home
Come On Home
314,095 3:55 2022-05-06
Nothing in the Silence
Nothing in the Silence
305,022 3:50 2008-01-01
Shoot the Sexual Athlete
Shoot the Sexual Athlete
303,851 3:13 2008-01-01
Consuelo
Consuelo
300,598 2:56 2002-06-03
I'm Not Rich
I'm Not Rich
300,488 1:60 2014-01-01
Sea of Sorrow
Sea of Sorrow
296,791 4:59 2022-05-06
Freak
Freak
294,696 2:19 2002-06-03
Deathbed of My Dreams
Deathbed of My Dreams
286,847 3:48 2022-05-06
Late Developers
Late Developers
286,415 4:20 2023-01-13
The Magic of a Kind Word
The Magic of a Kind Word
285,478 2:29 2008-01-01
A World Without You
A World Without You
274,660 3:03 2022-05-06
Big John Shaft
Big John Shaft
274,211 3:55 2002-06-03
The Fox in the Snow - Live
The Fox in the Snow - Live
263,340 4:19 2020-12-02
Scooby Driver
Scooby Driver
261,651 1:13 2002-06-03
Stalinist Russia
Stalinist Russia
261,628 0:47 2014-01-01
Black and White Unite
Black and White Unite
258,579 3:55 2002-06-03
Your Secrets
Your Secrets
248,995 3:12 2004-01-01
What Do You Want This Band To Sound Like?
What Do You Want This Band To Sound Like?
248,772 0:54 2014-01-01
I'm a Cuckoo - The Avalanches Mix
I'm a Cuckoo - The Avalanches Mix
238,079 3:60 2004-02-16
Wandering Alone
Wandering Alone
230,558 2:39 2002-06-03
The Song of the Clyde - Live
The Song of the Clyde - Live
226,480 0:34 2020-12-11
My Wandering Days Are Over - Live
My Wandering Days Are Over - Live
222,792 5:55 2020-10-27
I Don't Want to Play Football
I Don't Want to Play Football
220,322 0:58 2002-06-03
Consuelo Leaving
Consuelo Leaving
207,335 2:29 2002-06-03
Fiction (Reprise)
Fiction (Reprise)
199,675 1:23 2002-06-03
Step into My Office, Baby - Live
Step into My Office, Baby - Live
184,061 4:43 2020-12-11
Cover (Version)
Cover (Version)
183,630 4:00 2004-01-01
Mandingo Cliché
Mandingo Cliché
176,492 1:20 2002-06-03
We Were Beautiful - Live
We Were Beautiful - Live
172,164 5:38 2020-12-11
Don't Leave The Light On Baby
Don't Leave The Light On Baby
158,833 4:28 2004-10-12
Late Night Tales: Belle and Sebastian - Continuous Mix
Late Night Tales: Belle and Sebastian - Continuous Mix
158,402 78:59 2004-01-01
The Boy with the Arab Strap - Live
The Boy with the Arab Strap - Live
157,726 7:38 2020-10-27
Stop, Look and Listen
Stop, Look and Listen
151,222 7:05 2004-02-16
Seeing Other People - Live
Seeing Other People - Live
147,434 3:38 2020-12-11
You Can Do It If You Try
You Can Do It If You Try
143,742 1:46 2009-01-01
Cassaco Marron
Cassaco Marron
140,906 2:32 2004-01-01
Dialogue: Toby - Dialogue
Dialogue: Toby - Dialogue
135,415 0:34 2002-06-03
If She Wants Me - Live
If She Wants Me - Live
134,861 4:55 2020-12-11
Funny Little Frog - Live
Funny Little Frog - Live
127,768 3:14 2006-01-16
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John - Live
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John - Live
115,950 5:15 2020-12-11
Wrapped Up in Books - Live
Wrapped Up in Books - Live
114,815 3:26 2020-12-11
Beyond the Sunrise - Live
Beyond the Sunrise - Live
112,039 4:16 2020-12-11
Funny Little Frog - Live
Funny Little Frog - Live
105,720 3:13 2020-12-11
If You're Feeling Sinister - Live
If You're Feeling Sinister - Live
102,170 5:52 2020-12-11
Nice Day for a Sulk - Live
Nice Day for a Sulk - Live
98,031 2:30 2020-12-11
I Can See Your Future - Live
I Can See Your Future - Live
95,754 3:48 2020-12-11
The Wrong Girl - Live
The Wrong Girl - Live
93,405 3:22 2020-12-11
Stay Loose - Live
Stay Loose - Live
80,964 6:31 2020-12-11
I Didn't See It Coming - Live
I Didn't See It Coming - Live
73,802 4:16 2020-12-11
The Boy Done Wrong Again - Live
The Boy Done Wrong Again - Live
72,275 4:46 2020-12-11
Belle and Sebastian - Live
Belle and Sebastian - Live
70,145 4:43 2020-12-11
Dog on Wheels - Live
Dog on Wheels - Live
69,753 3:11 2020-12-11
Poor Boy - Live
Poor Boy - Live
63,926 3:55 2020-12-11
When We Were Very Young - Edit
When We Were Very Young - Edit
6,603 3:39 2023-01-13
Take Me for a Little While (feat. Evie Sands)
Take Me for a Little While (feat. Evie Sands)
4,419 3:19 2014-09-02
Collective Idiocy
Collective Idiocy
< 1000 0:22 2014-01-01
The World's Last Cassette
The World's Last Cassette
< 1000 0:27 2014-01-01
Dialogue: Conan, Early Letterman - Dialogue
Dialogue: Conan, Early Letterman - Dialogue
< 1000 0:26 2002-06-03
Dialogue: Jersey's Where It's at - Dialogue
Dialogue: Jersey's Where It's at - Dialogue
< 1000 0:22 2002-06-03
Dialogue: Class Rant - Dialogue
Dialogue: Class Rant - Dialogue
< 1000 0:12 2002-06-03
I'm a Cuckoo - Live
I'm a Cuckoo - Live
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Step Into My Office, Baby
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