Belle and Sebastian - Late Developers (New Vinyl LP)

Recorded in the same sessions as A Bit of Previous, Late Developers doesn”t feel like a collection of lesser-than songs that weren”t good enough to go on the “”real”” record. Rather, it”s an embrace of the freedom that comes with a jumbo-sized canvas, skilled students left unsupervised to paint whatever picture they feel like. Late Developers takes you on a journey as the band floats through genres with ease – from the frantic Billy Bragg-with-hella-flute-energy of the opening track and what I think might be Stevie Jackson”s best song, into a legit all-out radio-ready dance party in the third quarter of the record which includes a Belle & Sebastian first, a co-write with young pop composer Pete Ferguson. They then unearth a 1994-era pre-Belle and Sebastian tune, with the help of Camera Obscura”s Tracyanne Campbell right before they bring you home at the end with a true bop.

• 1 Juliet Naked
• 2 Give a Little Time
• 3 When We Were Very Young
• 4 Will I Tell You a Secret
• 5 So in the Moment
• 6 The Evening Star
• 7 When You”re Not with Me
• 8 I Don”t Know What You See in Me
• 9 Do You Follow
• 10 When the Cynics Stare Back from the Wall
• 11 Late Developers