A new Belle and Sebastian release is always something to cheer. So three new releases leads to the inevitable conclusion: three cheers! Here is the latest installment in a career that has always pursued a singular and delightful vision of what pop represents and what it can achieve, a career that has seen them triumph against the odds to win a Brit award, be one of the rst bands to curate their own festival, and play at the of cial London residence of the US ambassador (the last president s ambassador, not the current one s).
Murdoch, as ever, is not the only writer. Sarah Martin (violin/ vocals) brought in the delicious "The Same Star", which marries Belle and Sebastian s melodiousness to a pounding Motown backbeat, and was produced by Leo Abrahams (Ghostpoet, Wild Beasts, Regina Spektor). “We d met Leo in February of 2016, and I d say that meeting and the recording of "I ll Be Your Pilot" were the rst tangible steps of this EP project,” Martin says. “We didn t have a stack of songs to play him, but we liked him and he became a part of the plan from that point - and when I d got to a point with "The Same Star" where it just needed to be recorded, I thought it could bene t from having a producer to steer things, and fortunately we had a slot in the diary marked "Leo" coming up. It s not a song we d laboured over playing for months - it fell together quite quickly thanks in large part to Bob s [Bobby Kildea, guitarist] enthusiasm and Stuart s willingness to dismember an old song and repurpose the break, so that it wasn t just the same three chords over and over and over.”
There s one big reason why 15 songs are coming out on three EPs, rather than one album. “We d made a couple of LPs, Tigermilk and If You re Feeling Sinister, within the space of six months,” Murdoch says, remembering the early days of the band s career, and how that fed into their decision-making this time.
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