Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant (studio album)
by Belle And Sebastian
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Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant is ranked 7th 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 128 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,423.
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Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 09/20/2025 16:12 | inthishole | 396 | 78/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2025 13:37 | Proto | 3,723 | 33/100 |
| ! | 08/11/2025 16:44 |  EyeKanFly | 8,092 | 65/100 |
| ! | 07/09/2025 15:13 |  Milhaud | 1,604 | 69/100 |
| ! | 05/21/2025 10:10 | mash | 1,384 | 88/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.2/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.
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I feel this album is quite underrated, yes, it doesn't quite hold up with the first 3 albums in Belle & Sebastian's discography, but then again, what does?
With 4 different vocalists, it is always going to be a little patchy, and for me, the best tracks are easily the ones with Stuart Murdoch on vocals. These tracks alone make this album essential - I Fought In A War is great, the Chalet Lines is very moving, There's Too Much and Women's Realm are both excellent and the Model is one of their best ever tracks.
cestuneblague 08/03/2017 19:23 | #195467
Still very much a Belle & Sebastian record but with more voices this time around as Stuart Murdoch heeds the spotlight a little bit, and ultimately we get an album with some decent songs, some weird and not particularly rewarding experiments and a lot of sketchy, amorphous folk numbers that make the whole thing feel rather aimless. Not terrible, but lacks the timeless, colorful charm of their previous records & singles.
A slightly disappointing Belle and Sebastian album. Fold your arms child, doesn't quite have that cohesion and zip that their previous albums(and some later ones)had. Some decent songs(especially the first two), there always will be with B&S, but this arguably their weakest record.
junodog4 06/21/2015 20:25 | #144330
Not as bad as many suggest. A drop off for sure, but it's still got that Belle & Sebastian charm.
meccalecca 05/08/2014 19:57 | #111210
He was a charming lad who went to a private school and was always so well-mannered.
The last decent B&S album, Dear Catastrophe was OK in parts but they sounded a different band by then and for me lost a lot of their charm. I keep coming back to this one which gets stronger in the second half of the album.
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