Belle and Sebastian announce 'A Bit Of Previous,' release “Unnecessary Drama”
Belle and Sebastian have announced their ninth album, A Bit Of Previous. The record will arrive May 6 via Matador. They’ve also shared a video for their first single, “Unnecessary Drama.”
A Bit Of Previous is the band’s first studio full-length in seven years. The new song captures the experiences of a young person returning from a hiatus.
“The song is about a young person experimenting in being a human again after a forced hiatus,” Stuart Murdoch says in a press release. “The person is weighing up whether or not it’s worth the mess. Still, you dip your toe in, and it becomes delicious, and you get too much of it. Between trouble and nothing, we still choose the trouble.” You can check out the music video below.
As for the rest of the album, the band tackle “growing older with grace, irreverence, and musical bravado.”
As Murdoch says in the liner notes, “There is a firmly held belief in Buddhism that we have been reborn so many times and in so many guises that if we look around us, we are bound to see a person who has been our mother in a past life. And we are surrounded by people who have been our children. If we truly had that in our minds and in our hearts, we would drop the prejudice we had: our attitude to strangers and difficult people would alter emphatically.” You can preorder A Bit Of Previous here.
Belle and Sebastian will also head on a U.S. tour this spring and summer. Check out a full list of dates and purchase tickets here.
A Bit Of Previous track list
1. “Young And Stupid”
2. “If They’re Shooting At You”
3. “Talk To Me Talk To Me”
4. “Reclaim The Night”
5. “Do It For Your Country”
6. “Prophets On Hold”
7. “Unnecessary Drama”
8. “Come On Home”
9. “A World Without You”
10. “Deathbed Of My Dreams”
11. “Sea Of Sorrow”
12. “Working Boy In New York City”
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