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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 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 's Tigermilk in just three days.
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 , 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, 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. By the time the record was released in America on the EMI subsidiary the Enclave, it had earned considerable critical acclaim in the U.
Over the course of , 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.
Each subsequent EP placed higher on the indie charts and received much critical acclaim. The following year saw the eagerly anticipated, wide re-release of Tigermilk , the album that started it all. Just before the soundtrack's release in spring , 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'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. 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. A home run of a song. But every new Belle and Sebastian album delivers a clutch of fine new additions to the canon and their live show — a live show which, from fairly shambolic beginnings, has become better with practically each passing tour.
Murdoch recorded it on a beatbox, and was so taken by the tinny compression, tape-hiss and ghostly second-hand quality that he insisted this should be the final definitive article, and so it was. Prevailing wisdom dictates it should never have worked, but it did, and how. Which is Belle and Sebastian all over, really. Belle and Sebastian — 10 of the best. Wall of fame … Belle and Sebastian in
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