Perfection As A Hipster

Stuart Murdoch from Belle & Sebastian is a pretty busy fellow. Between releasing some of the best twee-pop of the last decade, he's also working on a musical project known as God Help The Girl. While it is eventually hoped to emerge as a fully blown musical screenplay, so far it is represented by stand-alone album God Help The Girl. Performed by a collective of the same name and fronted by various girls found through a "talent search" style process by Murdoch, the album takes a couple of reworked B&S originals and places them alongside fresh material. Drawing it's influences from "sixties’ girl groups, eighties’ indie and, most of all, classic pop records" it as an album that takes the sound of earlier Belle & Sebastian material and twists it, injecting it with new life and soul through it's distinct narrative. Judging by Stuart Murdoch's fantastic choice of art direction on the album and singles, we can only hope that his screenplay vision eventually comes to fruition. For now you can listen to the LP on Spotify or purchase from next Monday.

Elsewhere on the internet today is a lovely new song from Noah & The Whale's forthcoming sophomore LP, as well as the delicious new jam from Air France over at our friends Neon Gold.

[MP3] God Help The Girl - Funny Little Frog
[SPOTIFY] Listen to the full album here on Spotify.
[WEBSITE] Check out GHTG's site for some fantastic video interviews.
[READ] The album is reviewed by Marc Hogan over at Pitchfork.