Cuddly Scots Belle and Sebastian don’t have much in common with shirtless American funk jocks the Red Hot Chili Peppers, aside from both bands’ decisions to recently release two albums just months apart. A Bit of Previous was the first Belle and Sebastian studio album for seven years last May, and at the start of this week they jumped out from behind the sofa again with the surprise announcement that they’ve done another one.
As with the Chili Peppers’ Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen last year, the second batch of songs was recorded in the same sessions as the first. The close connection is made still clearer by the album cover, which shows somebody developing a photograph of the cover of A Bit of Previous.
