God Help the Girl is the latest project from Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch. If you haven’t heard the full story behind the group, allow me. God Help the Girl is essentially the soundtrack to a film that hasn’t come out yet. According to Murdoch, he’s had the idea for this film for some time and on the heels of Belle & Sebastian’s last record, The Life Pursuit, he began placing ads for female singers to join him on the project. After scouring applications and deciding on a final line-up, God Help the Girl went into the studio to record. The result, along with an EP titled Stills, was this full-length self-titled record. The film, according to Murdoch, is still in the works but until then we have this album and, in a word, it’s absolutely charming. I guess that’s two words.
