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...Belle and Sebastian, for a great deal of current indie rock is mellow, child-like and backward-looking. And most such bands are aware of their forerunners. If you can't hear the Beach Boys in everything from ber-hip Elephant 6 (Beulah, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo), then you need look no further than their official press releases...
...other product category is so sweetly seductive and yet so baffling as home theater. Not too long ago, all you had to do was buy the largest TV you could afford, connect stereo speakers, plug in a VCR and voila--you had bragging rights to state-of-the-art home entertainment. Now there's DVD, Dolby Digital, high-definition TV, personal TV, rewritable CD--all dazzling technologies, to be sure, but disorienting too. HDTV, a digital format so luscious it can make an enthusiast weep, was the year's biggest tease, delayed by technical complications and industry infighting. Yet some...
...evolution create such an odd system? Perhaps, the scientists theorize, to give humans the best possible chance to pick up all the odors around them--a sort of stereo smelling that could have boosted the odds of finding food or sniffing out enemies...
...trying to record the songs like we play them live. We lumped all of our hard stuff together, and we really didn't want to do a whole lot of producing--we wanted to avoid that overproduced sound. Above all, we didn't want to have Bring Your Own Stereo sound exactly like the last record. Listening to a record and going to a live show are completely different venues and ways of hearing music. We wanted for the album to be a different experience than the live show-show our fans different sides of the band...
...Some of the songs have been around--some more recent. "30 Days" was written three years ago, but I never thought that it would ever make it onto one of our albums. But the guys liked it and thought it would fit well on Bring Your Own Stereo. But a lot of the songs are new. For the first time, we actually had a practice space, so we got together and played all the time. Four of the songs were written together as a band...they really just came together while we played. I don't know if we were...