Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant

"What artistic force could cause perfectly normal adults to regress into thoroughly obsessed teens?" Time Magazine asks the big question, the answer, of course, is Belle And Sebastian's latest album. The Scots' triumphant 'Fold Your Hands Child' sees the doubters silenced as Belle And Sebastian sound more confident than ever. Their songs have always been instantly familiar while simultaneously original & unexpected. The fact that Belle And Sebastian have arrived at their distinct, anachronistic sound quite naturally & by accident ia a large part of their charm. It's not surprising, then, that Belle And Sebastian's fourth full-length record has arrived with the band's sincerity intact. The album itself is an eclectic mix of the soulful & the sublime, it will break you down, seep into your bloodstream & work on you from the inside out like an infection. The record's message, although never spelled out, is clear, through all the melancholy & solitude & terrible things that could go wrong, life is still worth fighting for.

"still peerless, still irresistable"
8/10 NME