- Record Label: Matador
- Release Date: Sep 13, 2019
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Sep 17, 2019Days of the Bagnold Summer encapsulates the best of Belle and Sebastian whist simultaneously narrating the key themes of the film. The gentle approach of the album and the complementary nature of the band’s rerecording’s and the new tracks are hard to fault. Belle and Sebastian have truly found a beautiful sweet spot on Days of the Bagnold Summer between a film soundtrack and a signature sounding album.
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UncutSep 11, 2019As with any enduring soundtrack, this collection of songs stands on its own. [Oct 2019, p.24]
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Sep 18, 2019Inspired by B&S leader Stuart Murdoch’s read of the novel, the soundtrack thankfully veers more towards the bibliophile than the head-banger. Two B&S classics are re-worked, including a spritely updating of the perfect fitting I Know Where The Summer Goes as well as more of a straight read of Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying.
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Sep 16, 2019The new songs, meanwhile, feature a return to form for Belle and Sebastian, whose more recent releases have ventured away from their trademark style of “puckishly depressed” and into explorations of the dancy, the jazzy, and, occasionally, the kinda bad.
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Oct 1, 2019It's remarkable how well everything fits together. Regardless of how successful you think some of the band's later experimentations have been, they're on strictly old school form here, for better or worse (but mostly for better).
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Sep 13, 2019As a Belle & Sebastian album, Days Of The Bagold Summer may be a bit slight, but as a soundtrack it is considerably more cohesive and alluring than Storytelling, all due to the group's increased mastery of texture and feel.
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MojoSep 11, 2019The best new tracks' confidence boosts the band's emotional clout. [Oct 2019, p.88]
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Q MagazineSep 11, 2019It's all very pleasant, but a lot of it does drift past without leaving much of an impression. [Oct 2019, p.106]
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Sep 11, 2019Days of the Bagnold Summer plays like a b-sides compilation with a few cuts worth revisiting. Like the Storytelling OST, this one’s strictly for the heads.