The Boy With the Arab StrapBelle and Sebastian · 1998

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8.2

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#3,224

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Tracklist

1It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career 2Sleep the Clock Around 3Is It Wicked Not To Care?4Ease Your Feet In the Sea 5A Summer Wasting 6Seymour Stein 7A Space Boy Dream 8Dirty Dream Number Two 9The Boy With the Arab Strap 10Chickfactor 11Simple Things 12The Rollercoaster Ride

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pitchfork

8.5

“The Scottish band’s excellent third album features some of their darkest and most detailed songs. Wholly beautiful and delicate, it was Stuart Murdoch’s first reluctant step into the spotlight.”

rollingstone

8.0

“The eight layabouts in the secretive Scottish band Belle and Sebastian are the new kings of the kind of teen-innocence porn that makes indie-rock fans cry "mama." Manufacturing an illusion of high school cuddliness without actually appealing to teenagers, they issue four-minute fluff balls of nonsense Glasgow stories and singsong melodies — naive and fragile […]”