"...Clearly there was some kind of magic in the Glasgow air during those bountiful two years between the summers of 1996 and 1998 and Belle and Sebastian were bottling it at the source. In fact, there's something about the band's relationship with Glasgow that has always felt especially important to me – like 80s Manchester to the Smiths or 60s New York to the Velvet Underground. Could If You're Feeling Sinister have been made in any time or place other than 90s Glasgow, with its detached air of rainy melancholy? Like more than a few people I've met over the years, Belle and Sebastian's music undoubtedly hastened my decision to move here to live and work, in the same leafy streets and red sandstone tenements that form the backdrop for those early Super 8 videos. I'm leaving the city soon, and I'll miss it sorely, but as long as I can put on If You're Feeling Sinister it'll never feel far away."

- Malcolm Jack, The Guardian