Belle and Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue

Turning shy kids into crooners, shufflers into dancers, fumblers into lovers

Single Review by Sean Michaels | 16 May 2006
Single title: The Blues Are Still Blue
Artist: Belle and Sebastian
Label: Rough Trade
There's only a little bit of vocoder in this song. But even then, just with a little bit, you know that Belle & Sebastian's tweeest days are behind them. No – The Blues Are Still Blue is better suited to dancefloor than to that melancholy seat by the window. Listen to the bass and tambourine-lines, while Stuart Murdoch explores the lower and robotic ends of his register. This could be a bad thing, would be a bad thing, were B&S not able to pull off the incredible: turning shy kids into crooners, shufflers into dancers, fumblers into lovers. [Sean Michaels]
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