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Belle and Sebastian

The BBC Sessions

Release Date: November 18, 2008
Label: Matador Records
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Travis Woods
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Belle and Sebastian’s The BBC Sessions serves as both a collector’s summation of the band’s first five years as well as a heady introduction to them for B & S novices. Featured are unreleased tracks from a Peel session in 2001 as well as raw and immediate versions of classic tracks -- most especially Tigermilk’s "The State I Am In" -- all spread across its quiet two-disc splendor. (Disc one features radio sessions from 1996-2001, and disc two is a live set from Belfast at the close of ’01).

 

And while that doesn’t quite make this set revelatory by any means -- save, perhaps, for the gorgeous wanderlust and beautiful melodies of "Slow Graffiti" -- it does save the record from being only a gateway to the band or only a de-facto best-of. Compilations of this sort can rarely stand as both, and The BBC Sessions, through innovative and intelligent sequencing as well as a dedication to the band’s history, stands well above its peers.

 

- March 5, 2009

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Bob
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March 5, 2009 at 10:36 a.m.

BCC sessions?
March 5, 2009 at 10:52 a.m.

Crap. It had been pulling the album title from Amazon. Should be fixed now.

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