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If you want to hear beautiful pop songs about traveling on buses, personal recollections made in natural surroundings, and depressive whimsy, look no further than Scottish seven-piece Belle and Sebastian. Led by Stuart Murdoch, the band are wonderfully literate and their music is strong enough to make them heroes in such non-English speaking countries as France. Their shimmering, multi-layered folk pop -- like that of the otherwise very different Lambchop -- only gets lighter with each additional instrument. An indie Horatio Alger story, B&S came out of nowhere in 1996, quickly selling all 1,000 copies of their critically acclaimed debut Tigermilk. Going from a university project to a professional outfit, the album If You're Feeling Sinister only built on their success, but The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998) refreshingly added songwriting and singing voices other than Murdoch's to the mix. Full of heartache, country lanes and dewy pastures, Belle and Sebastian's songs allow you to get away from your sorry life and examine it simultaneously.

- Nick Dedina

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		Step Into My Office, Baby (4:12)
		Like Dylan In The Movies (4:14)
		Another Sunny Day (4:04)
		If She Wants Me (5:05)
		Electronic Renaissance (4:50)
		The Stars Of Track And Field (4:48)
		The Fox In The Snow (4:11)
		Act of the Apostle (2:55)
		If You're Feeling Sinister (5:21)
		Funny Little Frog (3:08)
		Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying (3:25)
		Sukie In The Graveyard (3:00)
		Piazza, New York Catcher (3:03)
		It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career (2:23)
		The Boy With The Arab Strap (5:14)
		I Fought In A War (4:09)
		Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2:22)
		We Are The Sleepyheads (3:33)
		Song For The Sunshine (4:06)
		We Rule The School (3:27)

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		Step Into My Office, Baby (4:12)
		Like Dylan In The Movies (4:14)
		If You're Feeling Sinister (5:21)
		I'm A Cuckoo (5:26)
		I Don't Love Anyone (3:56)
		I Fought In A War (4:09)
		If She Wants Me (5:05)
		The Stars Of Track And Field (4:48)
		Don't Leave The Light On Baby (4:41)
		You Don't Send Me (3:08)
		String Bean Jean (4:42)
		A Century Of Fakers (4:30)
		I Know Where The Summer Goes (4:45)
		Legal Man (2:42)
		Lazy Liner Painter Jane (5:50)
		It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career (2:23)
		The State I Am In (4:59)
		Scooby Driver (1:13)
		The Fox In The Snow (4:11)
		The Wrong Girl (3:22)