Belle & Sebastian: “Girls In Peacetime”
On “Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance,” Belle and Sebastian’s first album in five years, the band has introduced a new wrinkle, writing a record filled with synthesizers and dance grooves to coax their once notoriously-staid live crowds to cut a rug. Even the artwork is different: This is their first cover that doesn’t use a monochromatic photographic still that directly references the Smiths, their emotional forerunner.
