I think this song gets unfairly pegged as wretched. sure, it's not great, and doesn't fit at all with the rest of the Belle and Sebastian catalogue, but it's actually interesting if not terrific. Isobel has said that this should have gone on the Gentle Waves record that she was making at the same time, and the whole thing sounds like an early version of her Ballad of the Broken Seas.
I think this song gets unfairly pegged as wretched. sure, it's not great, and doesn't fit at all with the rest of the Belle and Sebastian catalogue, but it's actually interesting if not terrific. Isobel has said that this should have gone on the Gentle Waves record that she was making at the same time, and the whole thing sounds like an early version of her Ballad of the Broken Seas.