Write About Love
by Belle And Sebastian

Write About Love by Belle And Sebastian
Year: 2010
Release date: 2010-10-11
Overall rank: 5,457th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 136 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2010 (93rd)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (1,014th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,457th)

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Belle And Sebastian bestography

Write About Love is ranked 9th best out of 21 albums by Belle And Sebastian on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Belle And Sebastian is If You're Feeling Sinister which is ranked number 142 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,387.

Belle And Sebastian album bestography « Higher ranked (4,111th)
Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
This album (5,457th)
Write About Love
Lower ranked (6,705th) »
Late Developers

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Write About Love rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,457th | 2010s rank: 1,014th | 2010 rank: 93rd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 136 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 73.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.


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“2123 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN WRITE ABOUT LOVE 2010 – ROUGH TRADE Produced By TONY HOFFER 1. I Didn’t See It Coming 2. Come On Sister 3. Calculating Bimbo 4. I Want The World To Stop 5. Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John (Feat. Norah Jones) 6. Write About Love (Feat. Carey Mulligan) 7. I’m Not Living…”
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100/100
This is the proof that they are consistent songwriter. Unlike many other band, they just keep making good songs. Hope they could continue to write and play songs Til the day I die.
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65/100
I think Belle & Sebastian are bored of being Belle & Sebastian; at least, the B&S sound they've carried since "Dear Catastrophe Waitress". They even wanted you to forget about B&S as God Help The Girl, even though they "covered" a couple of B&S tunes. (Ok, that wasn't the whole of B&S as GHTG, but still, why rely on "old" material?) Anyway, the fire's dying on what was once a killer new form. There's not much on this album that'll remind you of the catchy thrill-ride of "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" except for the lone remaining proof they can still write a killer pop tune in "I Want The World To Stop".
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95/100
A great album that it is very upbeat, unfortunately I feel that it drops off a bit at the end...
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80/100
Its pretty good. There are some memorable tracks on here.
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70/100
A much more pop orientated sound for Belle and Sebastian. Write about love, still sees the band on form, but there's nothing spectacular on this LP. It's all fine, competent and all that, it's just that edge is gone, that magic touch that they had on their earlier albums is missing. Inspiration and desire are a little lacking in my opinion. It's a fine album, but I want more than that from Belle and Sebastian. So-so.
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