A Major Advance for Belle and Sebastian (Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant - Belle & Sebastian)

Member Name: lenny0

Product:	Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant - Belle & Sebastian
Date:	13/12/00 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: Beautifully written songs, beautfully sung

Disadvantages: None

FYHC, YWLAP (God that's a long acronym) is a major step up in quality for Belle and Sebastian. While "The Boy with the Arab Strap" and "If you're Feeling Sinister" had some great moments, they never quite reached the heights that you could tell the band were capable of. Well, with this latest album they've got there.

The whole album is wonderful, but particular stand-outs for me are the first track, "I Fought in a War" and the absolutely stunning "Don't Turn the Light Off Baby" which has a dreamy ethereal lilt to it which is reminiscent of the very best of Nick Drake, their most obvious influence.

In fact, this album most clearly shows the band's enormous debt to Drake, with the string-backed tracks really bringing his first two albums to mind. For those of you who know Nick Drake's work, you'll know this a huge compliment. For those of you who don't - buy this album, then the rest of B&S' albums, then buy all of Nick Drake's. Trust me, you won't go wrong.

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