If You're Feeling Sinister

Occupation

  • Vocals, guitar, piano: Stuart Murdoch
  • Bass Guitar: David Stuart
  • Cello, vocals: Isobel Campbell
  • Keyboards, Piano: Chris Geddes
  • Drums: Richard Colburn
  • Violin: Sarah Martin
  • Trumpet: Mick Cooke

If You're Feeling Sinister is the second studio album by the Scottish pop group Belle & Sebastian. It was released in 1996 on the indie label Jeepster Records. The album rode a very good reviews and is regarded as a classic of the indie-pop genre, so that it could gain a large following.

The bandleader Stuart Murdoch said in interviews that this was probably his best album, though it was not very well received. In 2005, the band released a live version of the album called If You're Feeling Sinister: Live at the Barbican via the iTunes Store. This did the band in order to offer a better recorded version of the album can.

Cover

The cover of the CD shows a reddish picture on a melancholy lying in bed woman can be seen. Next to her is a copy of the novel The Trial by Franz Kafka.

Reception

If You're Feeling Sinister is one of the most respected albums of the 90s. Pitchfork Media placed the album at # 14 in its Top 100 list of 1990. Rolling Stone magazine listed the album on their Essential Recordings of the 1990s list while spinning the disk at # 76 on their list of " 100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005 " aufführte.

If You're Feeling Sinister appears as an elected from music critics entry in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Acclaimed Music ranks the album as the third best album of the 90s and as 224 - best album of all time ..

2007 Scott wrote Plagenhoef in the 33 ⅓ series a book about the album.

The critic Joachim Henn wrote in German Intro magazine:

" Idem for the range of instruments, from which it in addition to the accompanying guitar indeed make use of plentiful ( piano and other keyboard instruments, harmonica, horns, strings, flutes, sounds of children playing ), but thrifty way, just so that this continuous airy maintenance small nuances sets for songs that throw a strange magic in the room, one can hardly escape. Here are melodies, harmonies reinvented with an enthusiasm and a freshness that the retrograde expression, which could hold the whole, is blown away simply. "

Tracklist

All songs by Stuart Murdoch.

Record label Matador Records Singing Tigermilk Independent record label Dear Catastrophe Waitress Belle and Sebastian discography
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