God Help the Girl | Pop review

100 Club, London"Can you see the girls?" asks Stuart Murdoch, gesturing to the three doe-eyed beauties fluttering on stage. He is worried that we're not getting our money's worth. "Is that sexist? What's wrong with being sexy?"If there's one thing Murdoch's main band, Belle & Sebastian, have never been accused of being, it's sexy. Yet unrequited, desperate lust pulses beneath most Murdoch songs, and it rampages through this side-project. Inspired by 1960s girl groups and nouvelle vague cinema, G...

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