Belle And Sebastian* – How To Solve Our Human Problems

Label: Matador – OLE-1123-2

Format: CD, Compilation

Country: Europe

Released: Feb 16, 2018

Genre: Rock, Pop

Style: Indie Pop

1                       Sweet Dew Lee

Mixed By – Emily MacLaren, Stuart Evans (2)

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Emily MacLaren, Stuart Evans (2)

6:29

2                       We Were Beautiful

Drum Programming, Keyboards – Brian McNeill

Engineer, Mixed By – Brian McNeill

Pedal Steel Guitar, Bass – Dave McGowan

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Brian McNeill

Trumpet – Robert Henderson

5:37

3                       Fickle Season

Engineer – Emily MacLaren, Stuart Evans (2)

Guitar, Synth – Leo Abrahams

Mixed By – Kristofer Harris

Percussion – Emily MacLaren

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Leo Abrahams

4:03

4                       The Girl Doesn't Get It

Bass – Dave McGowan

Clavinet, Electric Piano – Brian McNeill

Engineer, Mixed By – Brian McNeill

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Brian McNeill

4:49

5                       Everything Is Now

Bass – Dave McGowan

Engineer, Mixed By – Paul Savage

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Paul Savage

5:28

6                       Show Me The Sun

Bass – Dave McGowan

Engineer – Kevin Burleigh, Ronan Fay

Mixed By – Kevin Burleigh

Producer – Inflo

Vocals, Synthesizer – Inflo

3:53

7                       The Same Star

Bass Guitar – Dave McGowan

Engineer – Kevin Burleigh

Engineer [Assisted By] – Ronan Fay

Mixed By – Kristofer Harris

Producer – Leo Abrahams

Synthesizer [ms20] – Leo Abrahams

Trumpet – Robert Henderson

3:35

8                       I'll Be Your Pilot

Engineer, Mixed By – Brian McNeill

Oboe – William Moriconi

Percussion, Bass – Dave McGowan

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Brian McNeill

4:16

9                       Cornflakes

Bass – Dave McGowan

Engineer – Emily MacLaren, Stuart Evans (2)

Mixed By – Stuart Evans (2)

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Emily MacLaren, Stuart Evans (2)

4:26

10                     A Plague On Other Boys

Effects [Sound Effects] – Leo Abrahams

Engineer – Kevin Burleigh

Engineer [Assisted By] – Ronan Fay

Guitar – Dave McGowan

Mixed By – Kristofer Harris

Oboe – William Moriconi

Producer – Leo Abrahams

Trumpet – Robert Henderson

5:03

11                      Poor Boy

Bass – Dave McGowan

Mixed By – Tony Doogan

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Inflo

Vocals, Percussion, Synth – Inflo

4:28

12                     Everything Is Now (Part Two)

Bass – Dave McGowan

Engineer, Mixed By – Paul Savage

French Horn – Sarah Perbix

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Paul Savage

Vibraphone, Glockenspiel – Zach Miller (5)

5:39

13                     Too Many Tears

Bass Guitar – Dave McGowan

Flute, Tenor Saxophone – Mark Henderson (3)

French Horn – Sarah Perbix

Glockenspiel – Andy Thompson (2)

Mixed By – Brian McNeill

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Brian McNeill

Trumpet – Cameron Kinghorn

Vocals – Anna Miles, Celia Carcia, Therese Martin

4:27

14                     There Is An Everlasting Song

Engineer – Brian McNeill

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Brian McNeill

3:24

15                     Best Friend

Bass – Dave McGowan

French Horn – Sarah Perbix

Glockenspiel – Andy Thompson (2)

Mixed By – Brian McNeill

Oboe, Tenor Saxophone – Mark Henderson (3)

Producer – Belle & Sebastian, Brian McNeill

Trumpet – Cameron Kinghorn

Vocals – Carla Easton

3:41

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Matador Records (2)

Copyright © – Matador Records (2)

Mastered At – Abbey Road Studios

Designed At – D8 (3)

Published By – Polar Patrol Publishing

Published By – Spirit B-Unique

Recorded At – Green Door Studio

Recorded At – Rocket Science Studios Glasgow

Recorded At – Banchory Studio, Glasgow

Produced At – Chem19

Recorded At – Gorbals Sound

Mixed At – Castle Of Doom Studios

Recorded At – Sunset Sound

Recorded At – Creation Audio

Manufactured By – LLC UK

Glass Mastered At – Sony DADC, Southwater

Arranged By [String And Horn Arrangements] – Andy Thompson (2) (tracks: 5, 12, 13, 15)

Cello – Cory Grossman (tracks: 5, 12, 13, 15)

Management [For Banchory Music] – Fiona Morrison (2)

Management [For Red Light Management] – James Sandom, Jessica Lord

Mastered By – Frank Arkwright

Photography By – Stuart Murdoch

Recorded By [Strings], Engineer [Strings] – Miles Hanson (tracks: 5, 12, 13, 15)

Sleeve [Sleeve Design] – Emma Durnan

Strings – The Laurels String Quartet (tracks: 5, 12, 13, 15)

Viola – Erica Burton (tracks: 5, 12, 13, 15)

Violin – Jesse Peterson (2) (tracks: 5, 12, 13, 15), Josh Misner (tracks: 5, 12, 13, 15)

Written-By – Belle & Sebastian, Carla Easton (tracks: 15)

℗ 2017 Matador Records © 2017 Matador Records

All rights reserved, all wrongs reversed.

1. Recorded at The Green Door Studio, Glasgow

2. Recorded at Rocket Science Studios, Glasgow and Banchory Studio Glasgow

3. Recorded at The Green Door Studio, Glasgow

4. Recorded at Rocket Science Studios, Glasgow

5. Produced at Chem 19, Glasgow

6. Recorded at Gorbals Sound Studios, Glasgow

7. Recorded at Gorbals Sound Studios, Glasgow

8. Recorded at Rocket Science Studios, Glasgow

9. Recorded at The Green Door Studio, Glasgow

10. Recorded at Gorbals Sound Studios, Glasgow

11. Mixed at Castle of Doom, Glasgow

Recorded at Gorbals Sound Studios, Glasgow

12. Produced at Chem 19, Glasgow

13. Recorded at Rocket Science Studios, Glasgow

14. Recorded at Rocket Science Studios, Glasgow

15. Recorded at Rocket Science Studios, Glasgow

Strings recorded at Creation Audio in Minneapolis

Mastered at Abbey Road Studios, London

All songs published by Polar Patrol / Spirit-B Unique

Issued in a clear tray digipak. Includes 12-page booklet featuring lyrics.

Barcode (Scanned): 744861112327

A new Belle and Sebastian release is always something to cheer. So three new releases leads to the inevitable conclusion: three cheers! Here is the latest installment in a career that has always pursued a singular and delightful vision of what pop represents and what it can achieve, a career that has seen them triumph against the odds to win a Brit award, be one of the first bands to curate their own festival, and play at the official London residence of the US ambassador (the last president’s ambassador, not the current one’s). Murdoch, as ever, is not the only writer. Sarah Martin (violin/vocals) brought in the delicious ‘The Same Star’, which marries Belle and Sebastian’s melodiousness to a pounding Motown backbeat, and was produced by Leo Abrahams (Ghostpoet, Wild Beasts, Regina Spektor). “We’d met Leo in February of 2016, and I’d say that meeting and the recording of ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’ were the first tangible steps of this EP project,” Martin says. “We didn’t have a stack of songs to play him, but we liked him and he became a part of the plan from that point - and when I’d got to a point with ‘The Same Star’ where it just needed to be recorded, I thought it could benefit from having a producer to steer things, and fortunately we had a slot in the diary marked ‘Leo’ coming up. It’s not a song we’d laboured over playing for months - it fell together quite quickly thanks in large part to Bob’s [Bobby Kildea, guitarist] enthusiasm and Stuart’s willingness to dismember an old song and repurpose the break, so that it wasn’t just the same three chords over and over and over.” There’s one big reason why 15 songs are coming out on three EPs, rather than one album. “We’d made a couple of LPs, Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister, within the space of six months,” Murdoch says, remembering the early days of the band’s career, and how that fed into their decision-making this time.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD standard Digipak
• Format: CD
• Genre: ROCK
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
• Released: 02/16/2018
• Internal ID: JITRE