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How To Solve Our Human Problems Parts 1-3
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How To Solve Our Human Problems Parts 1-3
Artist
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Belle and Sebastian
Label
Matador
Catalogue Number
OLE11236
Release Date
16 February 2018

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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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Sweet Dew Lee 6:29 Buy

    Sweet Dew Lee

  2. 2 We Were Beautiful 5:37 Buy

    We Were Beautiful

  3. 3 Fickle Season 4:03 Buy

    Fickle Season

  4. 4 The Girl Doesn't Get It 4:48 Buy

    The Girl Doesn't Get It

  5. 5 Everything Is Now (Instrumental) 5:28 Buy

    Everything Is Now (Instrumental)

  6. 6 Show Me the Sun 3:53 Buy

    Show Me the Sun

  7. 7 The Same Star 3:35 Buy

    The Same Star

  8. 8 I'll Be Your Pilot 4:15 Buy

    I'll Be Your Pilot

  9. 9 Cornflakes 4:26 Buy

    Cornflakes

  10. 10 A Plague On Other Boys 5:01 Buy

    A Plague On Other Boys

  11. 11 Poor Boy 4:28 Buy

    Poor Boy

  12. 12 Everything Is Now (Part Two) 5:38 Buy

    Everything Is Now (Part Two)

  13. 13 Too Many Tears 4:27 Buy

    Too Many Tears

  14. 14 There Is An Everlasting Song 3:23 Buy

    There Is An Everlasting Song

  15. 15 Best Friend 3:41 Buy

    Best Friend

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