Belle & Sebastian sing a pretty song of sadness

Now what does Belle & Sebastian sound like to my untrained ear? “Dear Catastrophe Waitress” is an album laced with pop-oriented hooks, quirky lyrics and of course, the easy, subtle Scottish accent of one Stuart Murdoch. As a seven-piece band, Belle & Sebastian undoubtedly possesses that big-band atmosphere-a large variety of gaudy, unfamiliar instruments infused with the traditional guitar-drum combination. In fact, the instrumentation borders on chaos with so many things going on at once, but t