Bookish and wry, beautifully but mutedly arranged for guitar and piano, Belle and Sebastian’s second full-length was out of step with a music industry just recovering from grunge. It came from a group of people who shunned the publicity cycle, doing no interviews, releasing no singles and shunning TV and radio appearances. It came out late in 1996 on the small Jeepster label and very slowly built a following . . .
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