Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Glasgow's finest pop exports return with a daring, diverse ninth full-length after nearly five years away
On "Nobody's Empire," the first track of Belle & Sebastian's new record, Stuart Murdoch asks a simple question. "If we live by books and we live by hope / Does that make us targets for gunfire?"
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Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance might come as a surprise for some. It’s tough and brave and witty and warmhearted – perhaps inevitable characteristics for a Belles album – but this, their ninth studio record, is the work of a band challenging themselves, just as ambitious as any fresh-faced debut.
To quote Woody Allen, relationships are "...absurd, but we keep going through it because we need the eggs." Belle and Sebastian get it. Their ninth album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance features a cast of damaged idealists on the hunt for love.
Album review: Belle And Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance. Still trying everything, still succeeding only some of the time…
Belle and Sebastian wants to dance, but 'Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance' is less of a 180 turn than one might expect. Read our review.
Belle and Sebastian’s ninth album takes in ambience, balladry and Eurovision romps, and does it with skill and wit, writes <strong>Harriet Gibsone</strong>
Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance review: The Be Here Now of twee.
A collection of lyrically deft, glitteringly arranged, but sometimes grating songs, says Neil McCormick
Veteran Scottish indie band varied and seductive with new, shimmering sound. Album review by Matthew Wright