Slowcore Mugs
Description: Belle and Sebastian were formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1994 by Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David, both of whom had enrolled at Stow College's Beatbox programme for unemployed musicians. Together, with music professor Alan Rankine (formerly of The Associates), they recorded some demos, which were picked up by the college's Music Business course that produces and releases one single each year on the college's label, Electric Honey. As the band had a number of songs already and the label was extremely impressed with the demos, Belle and Sebastian were allowed to record a full-length album, which was recorded mostly live over three days, entitled Tigermilk. Murdoch once described the band as a "product of botched capitalism".
Description: Some records feel like winter that never ends. The Quiet Collapse captures the bleak, beautiful stillness of early '90s slowcore through a barren tree, a distant moon, a frozen horizon, and layers of battered screen-print texture. Inspired by the understated world of underground alternative music, this vintage-style graphic is made for Codeine fans, slowcore devotees, indie vinyl collectors, and listeners who find something powerful in music that refuses to rush.
