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October 15, 2004
Orange Felt Juice
Belle and Sebastian - Your Secrets
Hop on the Stuart Murdoch Hot Twee Lit-Pop Train of Perfection! (and people said this website couldn't get any weirder) 'Your Secrets' is seemingly addressed to an older lover, and Struan, in sweet harmony with Stevie Jackson and Sarah Martin, swears by his own maturity, his ability to cut loose and be wild, in an attempt to disabuse his gray-haired baby of her condescending attitude. Nice line from this song that hits home pretty hard: "I just had somebody tell me I was introspective to a fault". This song strikes a nice balance between the involuted melodies and arrangements of Sinister-era B&S and their of-late predilection for chewy 70s pop (check that bassline- it struts). Of course it's gorgeous- I imagine Stuart Murdoch has melodies like 'Your Secrets' pretty much falling out of his head on an hourly basis.
Belle and Sebastian are one of the three bands (the other two being Radiohead and Godspeed You! Black Emperor) that I count as a personal gateway artist, in that my interest in their music has led me to listen to so many other groups- their influence on my listening habits, and even on my own aesthetic judgments is almost incalculable. They're a hard band not to like. You can buy the Books EP, which this song is taken from, HERE.
Posted by matt at October 15, 2004 08:00 AM