Belle & Sebastian are an indie-pop band from Glasgow — Led by guitarist/vocalist Stuart Murdoch, the seven-piece band has an intimate, majesticsound that is equal parts folk-rockand ' 60s pop. Murdoch has a gift for not only whimsy and surrealism, but also for odd, unsettling lyrical detail which keeps the songs grounded in a tangible reality. Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Belle & Sebastian released their first two albums in 1996 at the peak of the chamber popmovement. At first, some critics in Britain's music weeklies tied the band into the subgenre, yet the group was too pretty, too delicate, to bear that label. Through their first two years of public existence, the band shielded their personalities, submitting publicity photos featuring a girl that wasn't in the band and reluctantly posing for photo shoots.
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