Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap Artist_The Strokes Mixing respect with cheek

Mixing respect with cheek

La Dusselford and Beggars Opera

an experiment in popping

Her music melts with jazz

But is the beautiful strings that really turn this tune into something special

Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap Artist_The Strokes Mixing respect with cheekThe Boy With The Arab Strap followed on from the wonderful If You're Feeling Sinister and a series of impeccable EPs, bringing the band to the point of commercial breakthrough and all round crossover appeal. To this day you still hear the title track an awful lot, largely thanks to it being used as the theme tune to TV show Teachers, but the truth is, it's hardly one of the better songs on the album. Although TBWTAS features a higher profile presence