- indie pop
- 79 min
- 16 tracks
- Hostess Entertainment Unlimited
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is the ninth studio album by Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian, released on 19 January 2015. It was the first album by the group to be distributed by Matador Records worldwide. The album was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2014, and marked the first time the band worked with producer Ben H. Allen III. "The Party Line" was announced as the first single from the album on 29 October 2014, with its first airplay on BBC 6 Music.
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Character
Spare, character-led, classical in form and intimate.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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Metacritic 76/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 7.2/10
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubB+
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- The Independent4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork6.6/10
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- Spin7/10
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Tracks
- 1Nobody’s Empire5:08
- 2Allie3:16
- 3The Party Line4:14
- 4The Power of Three3:57
- 5The Cat With the Cream5:18
- 6Enter Sylvia Plath6:49
- 7The Everlasting Muse5:25
- 8Perfect Couples5:30
- 9Ever Had a Little Faith?4:22
- 10Play for Today7:33
- 11The Book of You4:24
- 12Today (This Army’s for Peace)5:36
- 13Born to Act3:10
- 14Two Birds3:48
- 15Piggy in the Middle4:21
- 16A Politician’s Silence5:46
16 tracks, 79 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Belle and Sebastian
- Label
- Hostess Entertainment Unlimited
- Released
- January 14, 2015
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- JP
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