The Life Pursuit

The Life Pursuit:
"1. Act of the Apostle - Belle and Sebastian
2. Another Sunny Day - Belle and Sebastian
3. White Collar Boy - Belle and Sebastian
4. The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle and Sebastian
5. Dress Up In You - Belle and Sebastian
6. Sukie In The Graveyard - Belle and Sebastian
7. We Are The Sleepyheads - Belle and Sebastian
8. Song For The Sunshine - Belle and Sebastian
9. Funny Little Frog - Belle and Sebastian
10. To Be Myself Completely - Belle and Sebastian
11. For The Price of a Cup of Tea - Belle and Sebastian "

The new Belle and Sebastian album (suprisingly) kind of rocks. Not, perhaps, as hard as "Don't Fear the Reaper", but rock nonetheless. It's got a little bit of the Beatles, via Badfinger (the shuffle blues riff on "The Blues are Still Blue") or Imperial Bedroom era Elvis Costello (the keyboards, hand claps and skronk upstroke rhythm guitar on "Funny Little Frog" and "To Be Myself Completely").

My appreciation of "Funny Little Frog" is somewhat tempered by the consistent (and insistent) attempt to rhyme "poet" and "throat", but all in all I have been enjoying this album much more than I expected.