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American Music Club Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed albums.
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Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
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| LABEL: | Matador/Jeepster |
| RELEASE DATE: | 06 June 2000 |
| DISCS: | 1 disc |
| GENRE(S): | rock, indie, alternative |
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The average user rating for this album is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 18 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Gianni gave it a10:
I really love this album, it is my favourite by B&S. For some reason I never liked The Boy With The Arab Strap, whilst I like Tigermilk and love If You're Feeling Sinister (and I hate the last two albums they put out). This one simply has fantastic songs, such as I fought in a war, The model, Waiting for the moon to rise. The only bad one on here is The wrong girl, whose chorus I can't stand. Really underrated album IMO.
Gilbert Mulroneycakes And The News gave it an 8:
I LIKE Fold Your Hands Child. The title could have been better by just leaving out "You Walk Like A Peasant", but other than that...okay, it's not B&S' best work in the whole wide world of sport - partly because it's so very subtle. Q Magazine have a point, it's got no gigantic, attention grabbing show tunes of the "Wandering Days Are Over" (or even the titular "Storytelling") kind. It prefers to come at the audience sideways, take them by surprise, and that's just terrific if they're already there, but it won't win them friends. What you get out of this album is equal to what you put in. I can only imagine this is deliberate - a little tweaking and Women's Realm or The Model could have done the job. Or they could have put in Legal Man as insurance. But evidently they didn't care about that, and fair play: some of their best work is on this record, from the haunting I Fought In A War to the exquisitely moving and disturbing "The Chalet Lines" - which happens to be one of my favourite songs, by the way, and I wish more people would talk about it, because it is to my ears so very great-yet-horrible that it really ought to live in history, or something - and the faux-cheery pop of Women's Realm. Though let's not forget the actually-cheery pop of Too Much Love or the startling recapitulation of seventies funk in Don't Leave The Light On Baby. Even if Stevie and Isobel's contributions aren't as good - not that that's something you can qualify in such a fashion - and The Wrong Girl and Nice Day For A Sulk come dangerously close to something B&S usually shy away from - filler material - it still works like gangbusters as a collection of songs, if not as a single work in its own right. B&S fans ought to start with Tigermilk though. Cos it's everything you want it to be™.
Benjamin Bunny gave it an 8:
Yes it does lack the freshness and naivete of their earlier records, but even if B&S seem to be stretching a touch to come up with interesting lyrics they outdo themselves musically with their most intricate, varied and elegant set.
Kristian gave it an 8:
I liked Boy With The Arab Strap better, though I really enjoyed I Fought In A War and Waiting For the Moon To Rise.
Sabalom G. gave it a 9:
Inasmuch as my--or anyone's--taste in music equals quality, here goes: Fabulous, mighty, wonderful. The Chalet Lines will emotionally destroy you. Women's Realm is blackly hillarious. Beyond The Sunrise surreally haunting. But it pales next to the majestic Tigermilk.
Telmo C. gave it a 10:
Just Perfect! The best by B&S
Jon D. gave it a 10:
excellent
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