Sold Date: March 2, 2015
Start Date: February 4, 2015
Final Price: $45.00 (USD)
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ARTIST: Belle And Sebastian
TITLE: Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance

FORMAT: 4xLP 

LABEL: Matador

CATALOG #: OLE-1056-8

RECORD CONDITION: NEW

JACKET CONDITION: NEW

DESCRIPTION: CONTAINS 4 EXTRA BONUS SONGS PLUS EXTENDED VERSIONS OF "PERFECT COUPLES" AND "EVER HAD A LITTLE FAITH". ALSO COMES WITH DOUBLE-SIDED POSTER, 4 UNIQUE ALBUM SLEEVES AND DOWNLOAD CODE!

"Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance is the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s Write About Love. Produced and mixed at Maze Studios in Atlanta by Ben H. Allen III, best known for his work with Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, and Raury, among others, the band – who have been listening to things like vintage Detroit techno and Giorgio Moroder – have brought a dance-party element (and a disco song about Sylvia Plath) into their gorgeous tales of sensitive souls navigating a world gone awry. It is perhaps the most inspired and wide-reaching album Belle and Sebastian have ever made." - Matador

"Irony abounds in the title of Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, the ninth album by the Scottish collective Belle & Sebastian. It goes unstated that the record was released in an atmosphere not quite synonymous with peace, but the group unquestionably want to dance, spending nearly half of this lengthy record grooving to a neo-disco beat. To approximate the pulse of a mirror ball, Belle & Sebastian hired Ben H Allen, a producer best known for his work with the modern psychedelic troupes Animal Collective and Washed Out, a decided shift away from the exquisitely sculpted miniatures that populated B&S' two records with Tony Hoffer, particularly Write About Love. If that 2010 album found the band embracing their eccentricities and taking the time to whittle their quirks down to their basic elements, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance finds the group stretching way out, twice taking as long as seven minutes to complete a cut and only once flirting with the three-minute mark. This is the sound of a band that's growing fearless in middle age, and while the record occasionally does drag -- all those long songs push it over an hour, but the sequencing makes it feel even longer -- there's also a thrill hearing a band unafraid to stumble." - Stephen Thomas Erlewine & allmusic.com