


Their eponymous debut gave us the classics Dog On Wheels, The State I Am In, String Bean Jean and Belle And Sebastian, and the disc one fittingly kicks off with these tracks intact and in chronological order.

With Push Barman To Open Old Wounds, Belle And Sebastian collect their Jeepster-era singles onto one two-disc set, and it effectively comes across as a greatest hits compilation. Their full-length releases- Tigermilk, If You're Feeling Sinister, The Boy With The Arab Strap, Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant and the recent Dear Catastrophe Waitress have all been built upon the same groundwork of lush but simple pop melodies that sound as fragile as they do sublime. Belle and Sebastian's quintessentially French brand of breezy pop has been their foundation since their first release on Jeepster almost ten years ago.
