Storytelling (Belle and Sebastian album)

Storytelling
Studio album / soundtrack by
Released3 June 2002
GenreIndie pop
Length34:45
LabelJeepster
ProducerTony Doogan
Belle and Sebastian chronology
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
(2000)
Storytelling
(2002)
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic59/100
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Guardian
NME7/10
Pitchfork6.5/10
Q
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
The Times

Storytelling is the fifth studio album by Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian. It is the score to the Todd Solondz movie Storytelling. Belle and Sebastian experienced many problems in communication with Solondz while scoring the film, and as such only about six minutes of their music was actually used in the movie. The album contains five tracks that are recorded dialogues. The instrumental track "Fuck This Shit" uses the prosody of the title phrase in a number of different keys but never the words themselves. The album was the band's final release on Jeepster, as they went on to sign a deal with Rough Trade the following year.