New God Help The Girl mp3 Mary's Market

Here's a new God Help The Girl track:

Mary's Market [mp3]

You won't find it on the album. It was recorded a month ago, and promptly put up on the band's website just days after capturing it. It is the b-side to the Funny Little Frog 7" that you can only get by signing up for the subscription.

God Help The Girl is out now through Rough Trade/ Remote Control.

A week of God Help The Girl on The Guardian

Stuart Murdoch of God Help The Girl, and Belle & Sebastien of course, took over the UK's Guardian newspaper last week with a week of blog entries and video diaries, giving insight to the project and how it all came together.

Part 1
There's no glamour in being in a pop band
"After churning out records for 13 years with Belle and Sebastian, I decided that I wanted to create a fabulous girl-group sound with my current project God Help the Girl" read more

Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch takes us behind the scenes of his God Help the Girl project


Part 2
How I found the ultimate girl group
"All along, the perfect girl group was singing right in front of me waving a polka-dot hanky in my face" read more

Belle and Sebastian's frontman introduces us to the girls who sing in his new musical project


Part 3:
The Belle and Sebastian frontman puts on his dressing gown and talks about the songwriting process behind his God Help the Girl project


Part 4
The joys of marketing a concept album
"I wasn't much looking forward to the process of promoting the God Help the Girl album. But turning my concept band into something more 'real' – if only briefly – was actually pretty fun." read more

Alas, it's the final video diary from Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch


God Help The Girl is out now through Rough Trade/ Remote Control.

You can subscribe to the story at godhelpthegirl.com

God Help The Girl - Funny Little Frog

The next single from Stuart Murdoch's project God Help The Girl is Funny Little Frog, originally recorded by Belle And Sebastian.

Now before you think you've heard it all before, this version sung by Brittany Stallings is fuller and more lush than the original (this may have something to to do with it being beautifully backed up by a 45 piece orchestra).

As well documenting the recording process, the video shows us the recruting process Stuart underwent to make his musical narrative come to life.

Check it out



God Help The Girl is out June 20th through Rough Trade/Remote Control.

New God Help The Girl video Come Monday Night

Here is the new clip for the first single from Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastien)'s God Help The Girl, Come Monday Night.



If you pop on over to their website you'll see they have relaunched it with a subscription package offer which includes 7″s, a Deluxe CD or LP of the new album, a 10″ and oodles of extra digital goodies. Plus, if you order you will get an instant stream of the entire album.

"This subscription package will gently unwind over the months allowing you to soak up the living, breathing world of God Help The Girl. A musical project with a beautifully and diligently crafted narrative that deserves to be listened to over time, for each place, character and voice to be properly digested before moving on to the next."

In The Guardian's interview with Stuart Murdoch, they describe how the album "comes with a backstory depicting a girl rebuilding herself after a year on a psychiatric ward" and is now "set to be made into a film". Read more about it here.

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God Help The Girl is out June 20 through Rough Trade/ Remote Control.

New God Help The Girl mp3 Come Monday Night

Belle And Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch has been busily working away at his new project "God Help The Girl".

Brought together as a musical narrative of sorts, the album features all the songs that have been floating around Stuart's head for several years while touring.

Feeling the songs 'just weren't right' for Belle And Sebastian he enlisted the vocal talents of various female singers including Asya of Smoosh fame and newcomer Catherine Ireton.

On 'Come Monday Night' Ireton (who seems to be the leading lady of this project) sings beautifully and somewhat effortlessly over a 42 piece orchestra to create this pop gem reminiscent of 60's girl groups and Bacharach-esque ballads.

Come Monday Night [mp3]

God Help The Girl is out June 20 through Rough Trade/ Remote Control.

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Introducing Stuart Murdoch's God Help The Girl

Belle & Sebastien's Stuart Murdoch has a new project - God Help The Girl.

The project is a "a story set to music, which Stuart Murdoch has been working on intermittently for the last five years, its origin in some songs that were written while Belle and Sebastian were touring ‘Dear Catastrophe Waitress’ in 2004.

Here's mini doco about how it all came together:



http://www.godhelpthegirl.com/

God Help The Girl is due out June 20.