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Written almost entirely by frontman Stuart Murdoch, the new Belle and Sebastian album, their sixth, makes a return to Matador Records and is a magnificently assured and diverse pop record. With nods to influences as diverse Cornelius, Manfred Mann, David Bowie, The Life Pursuit mingles the folky, be-sweatered pathos of their earliest work with joyfully satirical laste-'60s sunshine pop and the sophisticated early '80s-influenced work reminiscent of their prior album, 2003's Dear Catastrophe Waitress.

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We, the Vehicles, the second album from the collective of Davey von Bohlen, Dan Didier [both formerly of The Promise Ring] and Eric Axelson [formerly of The Dismemberment Plan], is a triumphant realization of the unlabored goal of Maritime and an occasional turn toward the darker, denser corners of years past. That's right: We, the Vehicles isn't all sunshine and bubbles. The band remains solidly tethered to pop perfection, but has taken space to let that pop cycle through all its permutations. Maritime ma...   [ read more ]

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