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Belle & Sebastian – Brooklyn Steel – July 10, 2019

Ahead of a new album’s arrival later this summer, Scottish seven-piece Belle & Sebastian were back in NYC on Wednesday night to headline Brooklyn Steel.

Photo courtesy of Ellen Qbertplaya | @Qbertplaya

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Poor Boy by Belle and Sebastian from the album How to Solve Our Human Problems - Directed by Oscar Sansom & Ciaran Lyons

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Belle & Sebastian Headline Brooklyn Steel on Wednesday Night

Belle & Sebastian may not be everyone’s cup of tea. But for many, the band—originally formed in Glasgow, Scotland—is exactly that: a warm and milky comfort, best enjoyed alone while staring out a window somewhere large and lonely. The group has been putting out twee, folk-caressed pop since the mid-1990s. Their magnum opus, 1996’s If You’re Feeling Sinister (stream it here), rocketed them to fame with lyrical songs like “Seeing Other People” and “Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying” (above). (The band will play the album in full this summer for the first time in North America.) Shortly after, a series of EPs—including Dog on Wheels and Lazy Line Painter Jane—and 1998’s The Boy with the Arab Strap (stream it here) kept them in indie pop’s graces. In recent years, Belle & Sebastian have shifted away from the simple melodies that made their name, incorporating disco and dance music on 2015’s Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (stream it here). The band’s latest release, a series of three EPs titled How to Solve Our Human Problems (stream it here) (from 2017 and 2018), departs from their early work, too, adding new layers and levels to the largely linear sounds of years past. Keys and drum machines add lift and bounce, but Stuart Murdoch’s vocals ground it all—a familiar and harmonic ’60s-era lilt. The songs are bigger, modern and feel very much like the antidote they claim to be. The intimacy of Sinister may be gone, but Human Problems reminds us it’s good to think bigger than ourselves. Belle & Sebastian play Brooklyn Steel on Wednesday night. Brooklyn five-piece Barrie open the show. —Rachel Brody | @RachelCBrody

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Belle and Sebastian sold out the plushest room in town, Radio City Music Hall, last night, and we’ve got the pics to prove it.

Photos courtesy of Mina K

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Photos: Belle and Sebastian @ Central Hall – Westminster

For our interview with Belle and Sebastian, click here. Photos by Daniel Robson | @danielnrobson | Flickr

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Concert Photos: Belle and Sebastian @ Massey Hall – Toronto

For our interview with Belle and Sebastian, click here.

Photos by Angelo Marchini | @El_Pollo_Lokito

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Gimme Your Answers: An Interview w/ Belle and Sebastian

Photo by Søren Solkær

A Music Blog, Yea? named Belle and Sebastian‘s Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance“their most inspired album to date”. Released back in January, the Glasgow sextet’s ninth studio record bring fans on a wide-reaching ride as the album features infectious glimmers of dance, disco, gloom, and a whole lot of raw emotion. To our pleasure, we recently had the opportunity of giving…

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