Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant

by Belle & Sebastian

Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 June 2000
  • Label: Jeepster
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 40:46
  • Community rating: 3.52/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: John Barclay, Frank Ricotti, Chris Cowie, Peter Lale, Warren Zielinski, Murray Fergusson, Martin Loveday, Chris Geddes, Paul Fox, Sarah Martin, Jonny Quinn, Julian Leaper, Gary Grochla, Cheryl Crockett, Jackie Shave, David Woodcock, Anthony Pleeth, Chris Tombling, Stan Sulzmann, Alistair Savage, Bob Smissen, Alistair Cooke, Jamie Talbot, Peter Nicholson, Boguslaw Kostecki, Ronan Breslin, Bruce White, Jenny Divers, Stevie Jackson, Stuart David, Isobel Campbell, Greg Lawson, Helen McSherry, Richard Berry, Helen Keen, David Daniels, Jeff Daly, Patrick Kiernan, Gavyn Wright, Mary Scully, Snake Davis, Derek Watkins, Richard Colburn, Mike Lovatt, Ben Cruft, Gustav Clarkson, Elin Edwards, Lorna Leitch, Francis Macdonald, Phil Todd, Everton Nelson, Dervilagh Cooper, Nigel Black, Kathleen Stevenson, Stuart Murdoch, Katherine Shave, Liza Webb, Noel Langley, Richard Edwards, Claire McKeown

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant' continues Belle & Sebastian's legacy of deeply poetic, melancholic indie pop. The album utilizes warm, lush chamber pop orchestrations to deliver incredibly soft, bittersweet, and highly melodic storytelling.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, twee, literate, british, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. I Fought in a War (4:09)
  2. The Model (4:00)
  3. Beyond the Sunrise (4:09)
  4. Waiting for the Moon to Rise (3:12)
  5. Don't Leave the Light on, Baby (4:41)
  6. The Wrong Girl (3:22)
  7. The Chalet Lines (2:33)
  8. Nice Day for a Sulk (2:34)
  9. Women's Realm (4:35)
  10. Family Tree (4:04)
  11. There's Too Much Love (3:27)

Credits

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