Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance

Belle and Sebastian’s ninth studio album, released in January 2015 and produced by Ben H. Allen III. The album continues traditional Belle and Sebastian themes of “bookish boys and shy girls” but with a new disco-influenced sound.

The title occurred to Murdoch a few years before the album was recorded. Murdoch said in an interview that he doesn’t really know what it means, but that it “feels like a good title”.

In addition to the standard edition released on CD, LP, and digitally, Girls in Peacetime was released in a deluxe 4 LP box set edition. This version had a different running order which included four additional songs, as well as extended cuts of two others.