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Maybe they could change their names to the Jaxxes. With half-assed rock bands now enjoying all the hype once reserved for half-assed DJ acts, it’s gotta be a confounding time for dance artists—even Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, whose last album, 2001’s Rooty, remains the grooviest club record of our infant century.

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Belle and Sebastian are more than a band of underachieving indie-rock layabouts from Glasgow. They represent an international cartel, a network of used-bookshop-haunting, obscurantist-mix-tape-swapping types who fret over what to do about grad school and their on-again, off-again boyfriends/girlfriends while working jobs that'd be laughable if they weren't so soulsucking.

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“She wants it now / And she will not wait / But she’s too rough / And I’m too delicate,” warbled Morrissey on the Smiths’ “Pretty Girls Make Graves,” a song that trembles alongside “Girlfriend in a Coma,” “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others,” and “Girl Afraid” in one of the more gynophobic oeuvres in rock history.

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If rock'n'roll were high school, Ryan Adams would be the faintly irritating yet firecracker-hot 2001 valedictorian--acing history, kicking it with that cute young chem teacher, cruising local college girls, spinning righteous bullshit in the parking lot.