Belle & Sebastian - BBC Sessions, Volume 14: 2017-2022

Finally, here is the last album of Belle and Sebastian performing for the BBC. Or at least it's the last for now, as I'm all caught up to 2023. I read that the band's main lead singer Stuart Murdoch is having some health issues, but is planning on having the band tour again in 2024.

It's almost false advertising to call this a BBC album though. Only the first two songs actually come from a BBC session. But the rest all come from radio station sessions that sound just like BBC sessions. It would be more accurate to call this a collection of radio stations in general, but I figure I can take a little creative license after so many BBC albums in this series.

More specifically, the first two songs are from a 2017 BBC concert. I only posted two unique songs (including a fun cover of "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses) because most of the concert is similar to the 2017 BBC concert I posted as "Volume 13" in this series. Tracks 3 through 7 are from a 2018 concert in Germany that was broadcast on the radio there. Then there's a big chronological gap, due to the Covid pandemic. Tracks 8 through 12 are from a Seattle radio station, and tracks 13 to 16 are from an NPR "Tiny Desk" concert in Washington, DC.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Are You Coming Over for Christmas (Belle & Sebastian)
02 Christmas Wrapping (Belle & Sebastian)
03 Show Me the Sun (Belle & Sebastian)
04 If She Wants Me (Belle & Sebastian)
05 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
06 Piazza, New York Catcher (Belle & Sebastian)
07 Poor Boy (Belle & Sebastian)
08 String Bean Jean (Belle & Sebastian)
09 If They're Shooting at You (Belle & Sebastian)
10 She's Losing It (Belle & Sebastian)
11 Unnecessary Drama (Belle & Sebastian)
12 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
13 Working Boy in New York City (Belle & Sebastian)
14 Reclaim the Night (Belle & Sebastian)
15 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
16 Judy and the Dream of Horses (Belle & Sebastian)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15208526/BellenS_2017-2022_BBSessionsVolum14_atse.zip.html

I found the cover photo with a 2023 Rolling Stone article. I assume it's from 2023 or at least 2022.