Tiger milk

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Tiger milk
Studio album by Belle and Sebastian

Publication
(s)

June 6, 1996

Label (s) Electric Honey Records
Jeepster Recordings (Re-Release)

Format (s)

CD , LP , MC

Genre (s)

Indie pop , twee pop , chamber pop

Title (number)

10

running time

41:37

occupation
  • Stuart David - bass

production

Alan Rankine

Studio (s)

Ca Va Studios, Glasgow

chronology
- Tiger milk If You're Feeling Sinister
(1996)

Tigermilk is the debut album by the Scottish indie band Belle and Sebastian . It appeared in a limited edition in 1996 and was republished in 1999.

Emergence

The band's founder, Stuart Murdoch, attended a music production course at Stow College in Glasgow from 1995 to 1996 . As part of this course, the publication of a self-produced record on the school's own label Electric Honey is planned. Normally they were limited to a single , but Murdoch already had enough song material ready, the quality of which convinced the course leaders that a complete album was produced for the first time. Among the students at the college Murdoch looked for people interested in starting a band, selected ten pieces and thus created the album Tigermilk .

1000 vinyl LPs were produced, about 600 of which were distributed to friends, acquaintances and radio stations, the rest were gradually sold. Word of mouth alone spread the reputation of the band, which was designed exclusively as a college project and therefore only had a few public appearances. The unusual arrangements and imaginative lyrics on Tigermilk drew more and more fans under their spell when all records had long been sold. Over three years they managed to repeatedly transfer the album onto tape cassettes, which were brought into circulation among friends, the original LPs became rarities. The top price paid for a signed Tiger Milk LP at auction was £ 810.

In June 1999, after Belle and Sebastian had released two albums and four EPs , the London independent label Jeepster released the long-awaited new edition of Tigermilk on CD and LP in the original design. The re-release reached number 13 on the British album charts.

Track list

  1. The State I Am In - 4:57
  2. Expectations - 3:34
  3. She's Losing It - 2:22
  4. You're Just A Baby - 3:41
  5. Electronic Renaissance - 4:50
  6. I Could Be Dreaming - 5:56
  7. We Rule The School - 3:27
  8. My Wandering Days Are Over - 5:25
  9. I Don't Love Anyone - 3:56
  10. Mary Jo - 3:29

reception

source rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
Pitchfork Media

The debut album received mostly positive reviews. British magazine Fact ranked it 57th of the 100 best albums of the 1990s. Tigermilk was included in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . The song The State I Am In ranks 17th in the 200 best songs of the decade by Pitchfork .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tigermilk: Full Official Chart History on officialcharts.com
  2. ↑ Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on AllMusic.com (accessed June 23, 2019)
  3. ↑ Review by Rob Sheffield on RollingStone.de (accessed June 23, 2019)
  4. ↑ Review by Chip Chanko ( Memento from August 16, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) on PitchforkMedia.com (archived, 2000) (accessed June 23, 2019)
  5. ↑ The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s on factmag.com (accessed June 23, 2019)
  6. ↑ The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s on pitchfork.com (accessed June 23, 2019)


Belle and Sebastian albums


Studio albums

Tigermilk • If You're Feeling Sinister • The Boy with the Arab Strap • Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant • Storytelling • Dear Catastrophe Waitress • The Life Pursuit • Write About Love