Track Listing

1. Will you please be there for me
2. The opening taste
3. 12 hours it takes sometimes
4. Deviance
5. If there is I haven't found it yet
6. Fire bell
7. If everything fell quiet
8. I've never understood
9. Raindrop
10. Sting
11. Billed as single
12. Tout le monde
13. Nytol
14. The day we all died

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8980 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-06
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
This album was recorded by a collection of fifteen people from the contemporary Glasgow indie scene. Amongst the collaborators are two members of Belle & Sebastian, John Cummings from Mogwai and Aidan Moffat from Arab Strap. The songs included benefit from the sparse production.

Customer Reviews

Beautiful
This is one of the best albums in my collection to just put on and relax with.

It's some of the best music to chill out with, but not in the same way as music by the likes of Zero 7, Massive Attack or Morcheeba (all excellent artists, by the way). You most likely woulnd't put this on if you've got friends round, as you might do with albums by any of the just mentioned artists. It might be a bit too laid back. However, that takes nothing from the album.

Their second album, Son Of Evil Reindeer, is equally glorious.

Just plug in your earbuds, put this on, and enjoy.

Glad I bought the second album first!
After buying Son of Evil Reindeer some time back and falling in love with its sheer beauty I was gagging to lay my hands on the Reindeer Sections debut album but after repeated listens I am left sorely disappointed.

Noone can dispute the fact that Gary Lightbody writes beautiful lyrics. Real, rip-your-heart-out-of-your-chest-throw-it-on-the-ground-and-stamp-on-it stuff, but I feel that his (and the rest of the bands) haste at writing and recording this album leaves it feeling empty and non-starting. Track after track simply plod along at such a slow pace that I actually find this a hard album to listen to.

I've tried to like this album, believe me, but its just not got that x-factor for me. By all means give it a listen, then go and buy Son of Evil Reindeer.

Gotta go, I'm off to the shops exchange this album for something else!

Not too much "Grrr!" from the evil reindeer!
I don't put this album on my stereo on a Friday night to get me going for the evening - I use Mr Lightbody's Snow Patrol for that! However, it's an excellent album to get you through the morning after and the following lazy Sunday!
On first buying the album, I went straight for 'Tout Le monde' - a must-see live, and was impressed to hear that the studio version was still able to blow me away. 'Raindrop', 'Deviance' and '12 hours...' caught my ear first time around, although how I could have missed 'Will you please be there for me', the opening track, god knows! Listening to 'Nytol', it's quite easy to find yourself sitting across the carriage from Aiden Moffat as he drawls his version of the evenings events, on supposedly the last train ride of the night.
How on earth has Gary Lightbody managed to write songs which suit each of the performers in the band so well? Well, it's beyond me, although I hear he's already written the next album too, and long may it continue. Buy it, and you'll be back here reviewing it before long!