God Help The Girl - Come Monday Night

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5...according to our Phil on Thu 07 May, 2009.

There was a time when I would have gladly smashed Belle & Sebastian in the face. I just couldn't do with the insipidness of it all. Now I'm older and wiser (and less angry) I can cope with a bit of 'em here and there. It's what I call a proper turnaround. Hey it doesn't happen that much. I was wrong... they were actually pretty good you know.... Mind you I still want to kick Darren Hayman off the face of the earth though. Anyway Stuart Murdoch of B &S has a new project called God Help The Girl which features the vocal talents of Catherine Ireton. It's gentle orchestral indie pop with strings and acoustic guitars and a general light demeaner. In fact being all British (and non violent) I'd say this was a delightful little single. Catherine is singing in a very Stuart Murdoch way so if you're a fan of B & S you'll more than likely warm to this in a jiffy. The flipside is called 'Howard Jones Is My Mozart' which endeared me greatly to the whole thing. It's a weird sort of spoken word thing set of some old regency period style shennanigans and now all I can think of is Keira Knightly... Limited debut release

First release from Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch’s new musical project
‘God Help The Girl’, featuring the vocals of Catherine Ireton.

· ‘Come Monday Night’, an orchestrated pop
song from the pen of Stuart Murdoch, is the
first single release from the ‘God Help The Girl’
album, to be released by Rough Trade.
· ‘God Help The Girl’ is a story set to music, which
Murdoch has been working on intermittently for
the last five years and his first new music since
Belle & Sebastian’s seventh album, ‘The Life
Pursuit’ in 2006.
· ‘Come Monday Night’ also features an orchestra
conducted by Rick Wentworth as well as
Stuart, Stevie, Bob and Richard from Belle &
Sebastian. The B side is the sublimely titled
‘Howard Jones Is My Mozart’.