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Belle & Sebastian “Sweet Dew Lee”

It’s kinda remarkable how well Belle & Sebastian have integrated late ’70s disco moves into their repertoire through perseverance and dedication over the past 20 years. It’s there from the beginning of their career on “Electronic Renaissance,” but they cracked the code on “Your Cover’s Blown” back in the early ’00s. “Sweet Dew Lee” is like a sequel of sorts to that song – it’s drawing on the same analog synth aesthetics and has a similarly rambling and unusual structure. But whereas “Your Cover’s Blown” shifted between moody disco and agitated punk sections, “Sweet Dew Lee” stays in a sunny, groovy “everybody-wearing-liesure-suits-and-really-committing-to-the-vibe” lane. I prefer the tension of the earlier song, but greatly appreciate the generous cheesiness of this new tune, and the way the song contrasts a sweet, starry-eyed Stevie Jackson with a more bitter and pessimistic vocal by Stuart Murdoch.

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