If You're Feeling Sinister

If You're Feeling Sinister
Studio album by
Belle and Sebastian
Released18 November 1996
StudioCaVa, Glasgow
Genre
Length41:17
LabelJeepster
ProducerTony Doogan
Belle and Sebastian chronology
Tigermilk
(1996) 		If You're Feeling Sinister
(1996) 		Dog on Wheels
(1997)

If You're Feeling Sinister is the second album by the Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian. It was released in 1996 on Jeepster Records in the United Kingdom and in 1997 by Matador Records in the United States. It is often ranked among the best albums of the 1990s, including being ranked #14 in Pitchfork's list of Top 100 Albums of the 1990s.[7]

Band leader Stuart Murdoch said If You're Feeling Sinister is probably his best collection of songs. In 2005, Belle and Sebastian released a live version, If You're Feeling Sinister: Live at the Barbican.

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  3. ^ "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 22 September 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
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  5. ^ Pitchfork Staff (28 September 2022). "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 26 April 2023. ...these songs set the standard for pretty much all indie pop that was to come.
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  7. ^ "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork. Condé Nast. Retrieved 28 February 2023. 014: Belle & Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister [The Enclave; 1996]