BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - The BBC Sessions

Charting the band's rise, beginning months before the release of 1996's If You're Feeling Sinister and ending in 2001 with some of their last work with Isobel Campbell, this set boasts such unreleased gems as the Go-Betweens-nodding "Shoot The Sexual Athlete". An intimate (and, judging from the near-constant audience squeals, exuberantly received) gig at Belfast's Queen's University from 2001 follows on the limited deluxe edition's disc two, sprinkling in a few crowd-pleasing covers (Beatles, Thin Lizzy) over the course of the night, and even handing the mic over to a random lad named Barry for a spontaneous bash-through of "I'm Waiting For The Man".