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- Record Label: Matador
- Release Date: Dec 11, 2020
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- Summary: The 23-track release from the Scottish indie pop band features live tracks recorded during its 2019 world tour.
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- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Chamber Pop, Twee Pop
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Dec 11, 2020At their best, live albums serve to encapsulate a career. In this case however, What To Look For In Summer offers something more, an actual elevation to the accomplishment. Look… and listen. Summer is an album for all seasons.
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Dec 17, 2020The songs sound great, but the easy on-stage banter and joyful communion with the audience sounds even better. Shut-ins of the world, unite and take over.
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Dec 11, 2020‘What To Look For In Summer’ is an enchanting compendium of the bands live work and is an ideal accompaniment to spirit you away to those carefree summer days of enjoying live music.
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Dec 17, 2020What To Look For In Summer is a terrific career spanning selection of some of their most loved songs the performances of which give lie to the common wisdom about a bunch of fey, romantically challenged, wallflowers. If anoraks just wanna have fun we could do far worse than spending 100 minutes with Stuart Murdoch and company.
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Dec 11, 2020Having such an extensive body of work to choose from, and Belle and Sebastian being one of those bands that regularly change their setlists every night, there are bound to be fan favorites missing but what has been documented works even if not quite making up for the real thing. Which, of course, is the downside of not just this but any live album ever recorded
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UncutDec 15, 2020The band's pleasure in playing and connecting with fans shines throughout. [Feb 2021, p.25]
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MojoDec 21, 2020It's exactly what you'd expect, but in a good way. [Feb 2021, p.83]
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