Scottish indie veterans Belle And Sebastian released their twelfth studio album Late Developers just last year. Shortly before the release, however, the band decided to remove one song from the tracklist because the album felt too long for the song: What Happened To You, Son?. Belle And Sebastian released this as a a few days instead. The driving track is reminiscent of jangle pop and features a playful bass line, a nostalgic guitar riff and concise keyboard sounds. Stuart Murdoch explained that the song is about his youth and the difficult phase he went through in his late teens. He had failures at university and in almost everything he tried at the time. During this time he was obsessed with certain bands from the 80s. Presumably, as for many self-doubters, this was Morrissey because many of the ingredients of this song are reminiscent of him. Anyway, another superb song from a band that seldom do it wrong.
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Thanks Walter.
The last two Belle & Sebastian albums have been enjoyable enough, and, in my view, better than the records of the 2010s. But I still can't help feeling that it is all a bit of a formula these days and I don't imagine wanting to add any of the songs into an Imaginary Compilation Album.....
Thanks JC. It's the same to me. They still write great songs but the beauty of their early recordings were on a very higher level and they couldn't reach it anymore.
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