Belle and Sebastian have announced A Bit of Previous, their 10th album and their first studio album since 2015’s Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance. It’s out May 6 via Matador. Today, the band has shared the video for the album’s lead single “Unnecessary Drama.” Watch it, and find the tracklist and four variant album covers, below.
Along with the album news, Belle and Sebastian have announced a spring and summer tour of the United States, plus some rescheduled tour dates in the United Kingdom and Europe at the end of 2022 and start of 2023. Find their tour itinerary below.
The new album was recorded in the group’s hometown of Glasgow. “We did it together, us and the city,” Stuart Murdoch wrote in the album’s liner notes. “This record was the first ‘full’ LP recording for B&S in Glasgow since Fold Your Hands Child, 1999. We clocked in every morning, we played our songs, we wrote together, we tried new things, we took the proverbial lump of clay, and we threw it every day.”
In the years since their 2015 album’s release, the band released the How to Solve Our Human Problems three-part EP series in 2017 and 2018.
A Bit of Previous:
01 Young and Stupid
02 If They’re Shooting at You
03 Talk to Me Talk to Me
04 Reclaim the Night
05 Do It for Your Country
06 Prophets on Hold
07 Unnecessary Drama
08 Come on Home
09 A World Without You
10 Deathbed of My Dreams
11 Sea of Sorrow
12 Working Boy in New York City
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Belle and Sebastian:
05-24 Asheville, NC – Rabbit Rabbit *
05-25 Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park *
05-26 Chicago, IL – The Riviera Theatre *
05-27 Minneapolis, MN – Palace Theatre *
05-28 Omaha, NE – The Admiral *
05-31 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre +
06-01 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater +
06-03 Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre %+
06-04 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre %+
06-05 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy and Harriet’s +
06-07 Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren +
06-08 Santa Fe, NM – The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Company +
06-10 Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion +
06-11 Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek #
06-13 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium #
06-14 Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater ^#
06-15 Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap ^#
06-16 New York, NY – SummerStage in Central Park #
06-17 Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall #
06-18 Boston, MA – Roadrunner #
07-15 Bristol, England – Lloyds Amphitheatre, Bristol Harbourside
07-16 Stirling, Scotland – Cardross Estate, Doune The Rabbit Hole
11-13 Cardiff, Wales – Great Hall – Student’s Union
11-14 London, England – The Roundhouse
11-15 London, England – The Roundhouse
11-17 Sheffield, England – O2 Academy Sheffield
11-18 Liverpool, England – Olympia
11-19 Hull, England – Asylum, Hull University Union
11-21 Aberdeen, Scotland – Beach Ballroom
11-23 Edinburgh, Scotland – Usher Hall
11-24 Newcastle upon Tyne, England – O2 City Hall Newcastle
11-25 Manchester, England – Manchester Academy
11-27 Cambridge, England – Corn Exchange
11-28 Birmingham, England – O2 Academy Birmingham
11-29 Southampton, England – O2 Guildhall Southampton
11-30 Brighton, England – Brighton Dome
01-10 Paris, France – Casino de Paris
01-11 Utrecht, Holland – Tivoli Grote Zaal
01-14 Hamburg, Germany – Laeiszhalle
01-16 Gothenburg, Sweden – Tradgarn
01-17 Stockholm, Sweden – Filadelfia
01-18 Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene
01-19 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
01-21 Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom
01-22 Munich, Germany – Muffathalle
01-23 Zurich, Switzerland – X-tra Limmathaus
01-25 Clermont-Ferrand, France – Co-op de Mai
01-26 Milan, Italy – Fabrique
* with Divino Niño
+ with Thee Sacred Souls
% with Tennis
# with Los Bitchos
^ with Japanese Breakfast
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