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While touring with Belle & Sebastian the past few years, Stuart Murdoch began coming up with songs he thought of as a separate project. Soon, they became sort of a story revolving around the travails of a girl growing up in Scotland who ends up being hospitalized due to what seems like a mental breakdown. Realizing that the songs probably needed to be sung by a female vocalist, Murdoch held a series of auditions. Eventually, he found a few singers he felt were suitable, and after hiring the guys from B&S as a backing band, they began putting the music on tape. The result was released under the name God Help the Girl, but it could have easily come out under the Belle & Sebastian brand and nobody would have been too surprised. The album sounds exactly like a B&S album, only mostly sung by female vocalists. Therein lies a big problem with the record. While the vocalists Murdoch found are all fine (especially Catherine Ireton, who sings most of the leads) you can't help but wish he had taken the vocals himself. Something about his words makes them sound much better when he sings them. Case in point, the neo-soul take on The Life Pursuit's "Funny Little Frog." In Murdoch's hands, the song is a touching, oddly poignant love song, here Brittany Stallings irons out all the kinks and turns it into a competent Winehouse-lite ballad. When Stuart does take the vocals himself, as on "Pretty Eve in the Tub" or "Hiding Neath My Umbrella," the record feels right. The rest of the time it sounds a little forced, and in a few cases when the singer is all wrong for the song (the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon's overly campy delivery on "Perfection as a Hipster" or Asya from Smoosh's overly dramatic lead on "I Just Want Your Jeans"), the record falls flat.
The other big problem with God Help the Girl is the very fact that most of the songs sound exactly like Belle & Sebastian. Put "I'll Have to Dance with Cassie," "Musician, Please Take Heed," "Come Monday Night," and "A Down and Dusky Blonde" on a B&S record with Stuart's vocals and they would fit right in. That in itself isn't a real problem; the fact that too many of them feel like less than thrilling B&S songs is. The songs that work the best are those with above-average vocal performances ("Come Monday Night," the title track) and those that try something slightly unique, like "Hiding Neath My Umbrella," a lovely piano ballad sung by Murdoch and Ireton that sounds like something Burt Bacharach might have composed for a French film in the mid-'60s, or "If You Could Speak," whose simple acoustic guitar backing suits the jaunty tune and sweet harmonizing perfectly. Surely Murdoch was aiming for something more than Belle sung by belles, it's too bad he doesn't seem to have the musical range to achieve it. It might have helped to hire some outside musicians, but it might just be that he can only write one kind of song, and to expect more isn't fair or realistic. God Help the Girl should probably just be viewed as a flawed work or a semi-successful adventure by a solo artist who needs his band to be truly great. Or maybe he just should have sung all the songs himself and everything would have been fine. However you view it, unless you are a Belle & Sebastian fanatic, you could probably give God Help the Girl a pass. You won't be missing much.
© Tim Sendra /TiVo
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2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Everton Nelson, StudioMusician - Anthony Pleeth, StudioMusician - Perry Montague-Mason, StudioMusician - Jonathan Rees, StudioMusician - Thomas Bowes, StudioMusician - Emlyn Singleton, StudioMusician - Patrick Kiernan, StudioMusician - Rachel Bolt, StudioMusician - Bruce White, StudioMusician - Mark Berrow, StudioMusician - Tom Piggott-Smith, StudioMusician - Nick Barr, StudioMusician - Dave Daniels, StudioMusician - Jackie Shave, StudioMusician - Rita Manning, StudioMusician - Julie Andrews, StudioMusician - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah Willson, StudioMusician - Mick Cooke, Arranger - Rick Wentworth, Conductor - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Hanson, StudioMusician - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Christopher Thomas Geddes, AssociatedPerformer - Richard William Colburn, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Celia Garcia, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Stephen Thomas Jackson, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer - Julie Reynolds, StudioMusician - Maya Burman Roy, StudioMusician - Stephanie Brough, StudioMusician
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David McGowan, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - James Swinburne, StudioMusician
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Everton Nelson, StudioMusician - Chris Laurence, StudioMusician - Richard Watkins, StudioMusician - Anthony Pleeth, StudioMusician - Dave Stewart, StudioMusician - Owen Slade, StudioMusician - Perry Montague-Mason, StudioMusician - Jonathan Rees, StudioMusician - Thomas Bowes, StudioMusician - Nigel Black, StudioMusician - Emlyn Singleton, StudioMusician - Patrick Kiernan, StudioMusician - Rachel Bolt, StudioMusician - Bruce White, StudioMusician - Simon Gardner, StudioMusician - Mark Berrow, StudioMusician - Tom Piggott-Smith, StudioMusician - Mark Nightingale, StudioMusician - Helen Keen, StudioMusician - Adrian Hallowell, StudioMusician - Derek Watkins, StudioMusician - Dave Daniels, StudioMusician - Jackie Shave, StudioMusician - Rita Manning, StudioMusician - Nick Bucknall, StudioMusician - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah Willson, StudioMusician - Martin Robertson, StudioMusician - Mick Cooke, Arranger - Charlie Cross, StudioMusician - Rick Wentworth, Conductor - David Theodore, StudioMusician - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Hanson, StudioMusician - Jane Marshall, StudioMusician - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Nina Robertson, StudioMusician - Richard William Colburn, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Celia Garcia, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Everton Nelson, StudioMusician - Richard Watkins, StudioMusician - Anthony Pleeth, StudioMusician - Dave Stewart, StudioMusician - Perry Montague-Mason, StudioMusician - Peter Lale, StudioMusician - Jonathan Rees, StudioMusician - Thomas Bowes, StudioMusician - Nigel Black, StudioMusician - Emlyn Singleton, StudioMusician - Patrick Kiernan, StudioMusician - Rachel Bolt, StudioMusician - Bruce White, StudioMusician - Simon Gardner, StudioMusician - Mark Berrow, StudioMusician - Tom Piggott-Smith, StudioMusician - Mark Nightingale, StudioMusician - Nick Barr, StudioMusician - Boguslav Kostecki, StudioMusician - Helen Keen, StudioMusician - Derek Watkins, StudioMusician - Dave Daniels, StudioMusician - Jackie Shave, StudioMusician - Rita Manning, StudioMusician - Nick Bucknall, StudioMusician - Julie Andrews, StudioMusician - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah Willson, StudioMusician - Martin Robertson, StudioMusician - Rick Wentworth, Conductor - David Theodore, StudioMusician - Brian McNeill, Engineer - Pete Hanson, StudioMusician - Jane Marshall, StudioMusician - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Stuart McCredie, MixingEngineer - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Nina Robertson, StudioMusician - Christopher Thomas Geddes, AssociatedPerformer - Richard William Colburn, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, ComposerLyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer - Brittany Stallings, StudioMusician - Dina Bankole, AssociatedPerformer
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Stephen Thomas Jackson, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Anna Miles, StudioMusician - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Everton Nelson, StudioMusician - Richard Watkins, StudioMusician - Anthony Pleeth, StudioMusician - Dave Stewart, StudioMusician - Owen Slade, StudioMusician - Perry Montague-Mason, StudioMusician - Jonathan Rees, StudioMusician - Thomas Bowes, StudioMusician - Nigel Black, StudioMusician - Emlyn Singleton, StudioMusician - Patrick Kiernan, StudioMusician - Rachel Bolt, StudioMusician - Bruce White, StudioMusician - Simon Gardner, StudioMusician - Mark Berrow, StudioMusician - Tom Piggott-Smith, StudioMusician - Mark Nightingale, StudioMusician - Nick Barr, StudioMusician - Helen Keen, StudioMusician - Derek Watkins, StudioMusician - Dave Daniels, StudioMusician - Jackie Shave, StudioMusician - Rita Manning, StudioMusician - Nick Bucknall, StudioMusician - Julie Andrews, StudioMusician - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah Willson, StudioMusician - Martin Robertson, StudioMusician - Mick Cooke, Arranger - Rick Wentworth, Conductor - David Theodore, StudioMusician - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Hanson, StudioMusician - Jane Marshall, StudioMusician - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Stuart Semple, StudioMusician - Nina Robertson, StudioMusician - Christopher Thomas Geddes, AssociatedPerformer - Richard William Colburn, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer - Helen McLeod, StudioMusician
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Everton Nelson, StudioMusician - Richard Watkins, StudioMusician - Dave Stewart, StudioMusician - Perry Montague-Mason, StudioMusician - Peter Lale, StudioMusician - Jonathan Rees, StudioMusician - Thomas Bowes, StudioMusician - Nigel Black, StudioMusician - Emlyn Singleton, StudioMusician - Patrick Kiernan, StudioMusician - Rachel Bolt, StudioMusician - Bruce White, StudioMusician - Simon Gardner, StudioMusician - Mark Berrow, StudioMusician - Tom Piggott-Smith, StudioMusician - Mark Nightingale, StudioMusician - Nick Barr, StudioMusician - Boguslav Kostecki, StudioMusician - Derek Watkins, StudioMusician - Jackie Shave, StudioMusician - Rita Manning, StudioMusician - Nick Bucknall, StudioMusician - Julie Andrews, StudioMusician - Neil Hannon, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Mick Cooke, StudioMusician - Rick Wentworth, Conductor - David Theodore, StudioMusician - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Hanson, StudioMusician - Jane Marshall, StudioMusician - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Stuart Semple, StudioMusician - Christopher Thomas Geddes, AssociatedPerformer - Richard William Colburn, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Celia Garcia, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Klobouk, AssociatedPerformer
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Everton Nelson, StudioMusician - Perry Montague-Mason, StudioMusician - Peter Lale, StudioMusician - Jonathan Rees, StudioMusician - Thomas Bowes, StudioMusician - Emlyn Singleton, StudioMusician - Patrick Kiernan, StudioMusician - Bruce White, StudioMusician - Mark Berrow, StudioMusician - Tom Piggott-Smith, StudioMusician - Boguslav Kostecki, StudioMusician - Jackie Shave, StudioMusician - Rita Manning, StudioMusician - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Cross, StudioMusician - Rick Wentworth, Conductor - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Hanson, StudioMusician - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Richard William Colburn, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Everton Nelson, StudioMusician - Chris Laurence, StudioMusician - Anthony Pleeth, StudioMusician - Perry Montague-Mason, StudioMusician - Peter Lale, StudioMusician - Jonathan Rees, StudioMusician - Thomas Bowes, StudioMusician - Emlyn Singleton, StudioMusician - Patrick Kiernan, StudioMusician - Rachel Bolt, StudioMusician - Bruce White, StudioMusician - Mark Berrow, StudioMusician - Tom Piggott-Smith, StudioMusician - Nick Barr, StudioMusician - Boguslav Kostecki, StudioMusician - Dave Daniels, StudioMusician - Jackie Shave, StudioMusician - Rita Manning, StudioMusician - Sarah Willson, StudioMusician - Charlie Cross, StudioMusician - Rick Wentworth, Conductor - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Hanson, StudioMusician - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Stephen Thomas Jackson, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Asya, AssociatedPerformer - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Richard William Colburn, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Everton Nelson, StudioMusician - Richard Edwards, StudioMusician - Anthony Pleeth, StudioMusician - Perry Montague-Mason, StudioMusician - Peter Lale, StudioMusician - Jonathan Rees, StudioMusician - Thomas Bowes, StudioMusician - Neil Sidwell, StudioMusician - Nigel Black, StudioMusician - Dave Bishop, StudioMusician - Emlyn Singleton, StudioMusician - Patrick Kiernan, StudioMusician - Rachel Bolt, StudioMusician - Bruce White, StudioMusician - Simon Gardner, StudioMusician - John Barclay, StudioMusician - Mark Berrow, StudioMusician - Tom Piggott-Smith, StudioMusician - Mark Nightingale, StudioMusician - Nick Barr, StudioMusician - Boguslav Kostecki, StudioMusician - Helen Keen, StudioMusician - Stuart Brooks, StudioMusician - Adrian Hallowell, StudioMusician - Derek Watkins, StudioMusician - Dave Daniels, StudioMusician - Jackie Shave, StudioMusician - Rita Manning, StudioMusician - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah Willson, StudioMusician - Rick Wentworth, Conductor - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Hanson, StudioMusician - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Nina Robertson, StudioMusician - Christopher Thomas Geddes, AssociatedPerformer - Richard William Colburn, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Celia Garcia, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Klobouk, StudioMusician
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Sony, MusicPublisher - Bob Kildea, AssociatedPerformer - Mick Cooke, StudioMusician - Brian McNeill, Engineer, MixingEngineer - ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Asya, AssociatedPerformer - God Help The Girl, MainArtist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Christopher Thomas Geddes, AssociatedPerformer - Richard William Colburn, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah Ann Martin, StudioMusician - Stephen Thomas Jackson, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Lee Murdoch, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Celia Garcia, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Catherine Ireton, AssociatedPerformer - Brittany Stallings, StudioMusician - Dina Bankole, StudioMusician
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
Albumbeschreibung
While touring with Belle & Sebastian the past few years, Stuart Murdoch began coming up with songs he thought of as a separate project. Soon, they became sort of a story revolving around the travails of a girl growing up in Scotland who ends up being hospitalized due to what seems like a mental breakdown. Realizing that the songs probably needed to be sung by a female vocalist, Murdoch held a series of auditions. Eventually, he found a few singers he felt were suitable, and after hiring the guys from B&S as a backing band, they began putting the music on tape. The result was released under the name God Help the Girl, but it could have easily come out under the Belle & Sebastian brand and nobody would have been too surprised. The album sounds exactly like a B&S album, only mostly sung by female vocalists. Therein lies a big problem with the record. While the vocalists Murdoch found are all fine (especially Catherine Ireton, who sings most of the leads) you can't help but wish he had taken the vocals himself. Something about his words makes them sound much better when he sings them. Case in point, the neo-soul take on The Life Pursuit's "Funny Little Frog." In Murdoch's hands, the song is a touching, oddly poignant love song, here Brittany Stallings irons out all the kinks and turns it into a competent Winehouse-lite ballad. When Stuart does take the vocals himself, as on "Pretty Eve in the Tub" or "Hiding Neath My Umbrella," the record feels right. The rest of the time it sounds a little forced, and in a few cases when the singer is all wrong for the song (the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon's overly campy delivery on "Perfection as a Hipster" or Asya from Smoosh's overly dramatic lead on "I Just Want Your Jeans"), the record falls flat.
The other big problem with God Help the Girl is the very fact that most of the songs sound exactly like Belle & Sebastian. Put "I'll Have to Dance with Cassie," "Musician, Please Take Heed," "Come Monday Night," and "A Down and Dusky Blonde" on a B&S record with Stuart's vocals and they would fit right in. That in itself isn't a real problem; the fact that too many of them feel like less than thrilling B&S songs is. The songs that work the best are those with above-average vocal performances ("Come Monday Night," the title track) and those that try something slightly unique, like "Hiding Neath My Umbrella," a lovely piano ballad sung by Murdoch and Ireton that sounds like something Burt Bacharach might have composed for a French film in the mid-'60s, or "If You Could Speak," whose simple acoustic guitar backing suits the jaunty tune and sweet harmonizing perfectly. Surely Murdoch was aiming for something more than Belle sung by belles, it's too bad he doesn't seem to have the musical range to achieve it. It might have helped to hire some outside musicians, but it might just be that he can only write one kind of song, and to expect more isn't fair or realistic. God Help the Girl should probably just be viewed as a flawed work or a semi-successful adventure by a solo artist who needs his band to be truly great. Or maybe he just should have sung all the songs himself and everything would have been fine. However you view it, unless you are a Belle & Sebastian fanatic, you could probably give God Help the Girl a pass. You won't be missing much.
© Tim Sendra /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:44:01
- Main artists: God Help The Girl
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rough Trade
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative en Indie
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd 2009 Stuart Murdoch under exclusive license to Rough Trade Records Ltd
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