A DOSE OF THRUSH

Now, you don't normally associate Belle and Sebastian with the garage. And if you do it rhymes with carriage, and they're 12 years old, and they're in the corner behind the pram, and they're looking at a picture of Lulu that they cut carefully from last week's Melody Maker, and they're feeling conflicted about it. Because yes, their high frequency sensitivity does sometimes put the twee in tweeter...

But then in Lazy Line Painter Jane, those girl-group handclaps come in before the bridge, and the whole thing devolves into a glorious Al Kooperesque noise at the end that you really need to turn up loud, and as it skids to a close you marvel at this inflation of the everyday into the epic. In the garage...