Belle And Sebastian Set To Begin Work On New, Eurovision-Inspired Album
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Written by Huw Baines
Belle and Sebastian are preparing to enter the studio in order to record a new album, their first since 'Write About Love' in 2010.
The band's frontman, Stuart Murdoch, spoke to Rolling Stonewhile promoting his directorial debut, God Help The Girl, at Sundance, confirming that they have been working on a record broadly inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest. He said:
"Yes, we’ve been writing in Glasgow and we will start the record in March. I hope it will be out by autumn. If not, we will have failed. One of the things I wanted to explore – this might seem a bit facetious, but we have this thing called a Eurovision Song Contest. For example, Abba won in 1974, and that’s how they got their big break. And that was really the last great song from Eurovision.
"Since then it’s been kind of a train wreck, but it gives you a window into every little country, and it’s the only time that Europe gets together for this big party, and now, especially now, we have all the Russian block, eastern block countries, it’s all shifted to the East. So in a sense, I remember saying to the band, I want to do an album that one song feels like it could be the Cyprus entry for 1974. And then next song would be the German entry for 1989, or something like that. You might not see that in the finished songs, but somewhere that’s been an inspiration."
God Help The Girl is slated for a worldwide release later in 2014.
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