As They Are

Digitally remastered edition of this 1968 album appearing for the first time on CD. Effortlessly cool and breezy, sophisticated yet naive, this is the perfect missing link between Acid-Folk and New York Tin Pan Alley Pop with a wistful Bossa flavor redolent of A&M Records albums of the period. As the Manchester poet Robert Cochrane says in his appreciation of this album, people are still trying to achieve the balance of calculated innocence that these two managed in their teens. Belle and Sebastian have made an entire career from such obsessions, creating much beauty in their wake. What followed for Tee and Cara is presently unknown, but in the summer of 1968 a boy and a girl in New York got something right. Rev-Ola. 2009.