Album Review: Belle and Sebastian – “Days of the Bagnold Summer”

Belle and Sebastian return with new music this week, and despite the very Belle-and-Sebastian-esque album name, Days of the Bagnold Summer, this album is a soundtrack companion to the film of the same name. The film, an adaptation of a…

Belle and Sebastian – “How to Solve Our Human Problems”: Album Review

Over the past few years, Belle and Sebastian have truly stretched past their comfort zone, flirting with electronica beats and even abandoning their notoriously secluded ways to ride the festival circuit. Although their sound has always had both feet planted…

Our Favorite Back to School Songs

School is officially back in session, and with it comes another year of classes, tests, annoying or great teachers, team sports, clubs, and of course the requisite number of personal embarrassments, crushes, triumphs and mistakes to learn from. It’s all…

Matt on Music: 20 Album Reviews for March 2015

This year, I want to simultaneously take my time with music and review more of it. There are so many good albums released every year, as well as several notably bad ones, that it feels like a shame to not say something…