Push Barman to Open Old Wounds Set]

Description

Belle & Sebastian released seven EPs and singles with Jeepster at the beginning of their career. None of these tracks have ever since appeared on a B&S album, so Push Barman To Open Old Wounds, which collects all 25 cuts together over two discs, is a massive boon for fans who missed them the first time around. But these songs are not just for the obsessive completist. This collection gathers together some of band's finest recordings to date - certainly some of their most poetic, delicate and humorous. Classic songs like "Dog On Wheels", "The State I Am In", "Lazy Line Painter Jane", "String Bean Jean" and their breakthrough classic "This Is Just A Modern Rock Song" sound as fresh now as they did then, and reveal a group able to knit together casual backdrops of bluegrass, country & western and barbershop quartets with engaging lyrics, a strangely rural flair and heaps of understated imagination. A quietly formidable anthology, this is a must for fans and newcomers alike.