Storytelling is an album by Belle & Sebastian. It is the score to the Todd Solondz movie Storytelling. Belle & Sebastian experienced many notable problems in communication with Solondz whilst scoring the movie, and as such only about 6 minutes of music by them was actually used in the movie itself.
Belle & Sebastian's Storytelling is a compromise as well, as this schizoid album is clearly divided by what Belle & Sebastian consider a soundtrack (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Graduate) and what New Line considers a soundtrack (Pulp Fiction, apparently).
There are a few gems on the album. Of the six pop songs included here, two are very good. "Storytelling" is a breezy little tune, sung by Isobel Campbell. It has just the right amount of bounce in the piano and not too much Sarah Records in the vocal delivery, it works out all very well. "Big John Shaft" is Belle and Sebastian trying out the ultra-white funk and succeeding quite admirably. For a lot of people, these two songs will make the record worth purchase—I’d say wait for some sort of Belle and Sebastian compilation.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Contact
Popular Posts of the Week
-
Pin Ups fits into David Bowie's output roughly where Moondog Matinee (which, strangely enough, appeared the very same month) did into...
-
The Great Escape , for all of its many virtues, painted Blur into a corner and there was only one way out -- to abandon the Britpop that th...
-
If there was even the tiniest bit of comfort to be wrung from Johnny Dowd's singularly disturbing debut album, Wrong Side of Memphis , ...
-
The Division Bell is the most recent studio album released by Pink Floyd in 1994 (March 30 in the United Kingdom, April 5 in the United Sta...
-
History They originally called themselves The Reactionaries , with additional band member and singer Martin Tamburovich. According to Watt, ...
-
The Fragile , Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor produced this album. Once again, Alan Moulder has been in charge of the mixing. Accordi...
-
This isn't an album or an album review.Modern music followers,lovers,or haters:)Today is my birthday.And I want to share my cake with y...

0 COMMENTS:
Post a Comment