How To Solve Our Human Problems
Matador
2018
1. Technically the new Belle & Sebastian release “How To Solve Human Problems” is
three EPs and not one single album, but I’m reviewing the whole lot at once
because:
a. I’m
lazy.
b. I’m
always going to listen to this as an entire single record, not three small
ones.
2. There are a number of good songs here, but on
the whole I’m not super enamored with this…hopefully it will grow on me. You can’t win them all…I’ve consider myself a
pretty big fan, but I’ve still barely listened to “Storytelling.”
a. For
the record, those good songs include:
i.
We Were Beautiful
ii.
The Girl Doesn’t Get It
iii.
Everything IS Now (Part Two)
3. It feels like this is the least Stuart Murdoch
has ever sang on one of their releases.
Feels like a lot more lead vocals from the other band members…I love
Stevie and the rest of them, but Stuart is the main draw here and let’s not
lose sight of that.
4. Is this a much dancier record than in the
past? I may have said the same thing
with 2014’s “The Party Line.” Maybe it’s
just the dancey songs that stand out and that’s why I feel that way. Or maybe I’m an idiot.
5. My list-based OCD is forcing me to put a fifth
entry even though I don’t have anything else to say.
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