Belle & Sebastian - Late DevelopersBelle and Sebastian hit the ground running in 2023 with new album Late Developers, released this Friday, January 13th. Arriving almost back to back to 2022s Top Ten album A Bit of Previous, Late Developers comes on like its predecessors sun kissed cousin. It is a full hearted embrace of the band's brightest tendencies that is not only fresh and immediate but possessing of that Belle and Sebastian je ne sais quoi of a group that will always be there

packed from start to finish with ridiculous lyricism – all carried out in impressive four-part

By adding full instrumentation to his acoustic reveries

"Started as the so-called 'Krautrock Guerrilla' in 2012

Holger played his parts in a freeform way and the bpm varied wildly as it was not possible to sync it to any outside controllers

Simon Reynolds commented in Rolling Stone that the group’s early records form “an endlessly seductive body of work that sounds always the same

This interest in nature and technology

It is about deliverance

Especially when it came to drummers

“Marta doesn't care about being famous

bass and drum lines that interchange and play with each other in a frenzied cosmic dance

Sing For Me - Sky 15

alongside an album of previously unreleased demos