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Matador Records will release Belle and Sebastians What to Look for in Summer, a live double album gathering choice selections from the bands 2019 world tour, including last summers epic Boaty Weekender cruise.

All live records are a time capsule to some extent, but Belle and Sebastians What To Look For In Summer is perhaps a bit more evocative than originally planned.

We’d been badgered by our fan base to put out recordings of the shows, frontman Stuart Murdoch teases. So they began multi-tracking their 2019 tour, including all three sets from the Boaty Weekender festival, which took place on a cruise ship. Which of those things feels more like an out-of-reach fantasy right now, simply seeing some live music, a festival, or getting on a cruise ship?

Whatever your answer, What To Look For In Summer takes you there. With COVID-19 cancelling not only 2020 live shows, but Belle and Sebastians plans to make a new record in Los Angeles, what started out as a between-albums, for-the-heads release wound up getting a bit more care and attention.

Neither a retrospective nor a back-door greatest-hits, What To Look For In Summer is the sound of a band thats always moving forward, a picture of Belle and Sebastian in 2019 that gives equal weight to early days (My Wandering Days Are Over, Seeing Other People) and recent years (Poor Boy, We Were Beautiful).