From the Vaults Friday: Felt, Forever Breathes the Lonely Word (1986)

The Year: 1986
The Album: Felt, Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
Who it Influenced: Belle and Sebastian, Pulp, The Field Mice, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Tyde, The Crayon Fields

Once upon a time, Belle and Sebastian leader (and, I suppose, God Help the Girl mastermind) Stuart Murdoch typed out his love for Forever Breathes the Lonely Word, the sixth LP for English indie-pop cult act Felt.

"Poetic, ambitious, amazing," Murdoch wrote, in a list of his ten favorite albums for The Observer. "It's hard to imagine this record ever having been released. Hard to imagine it was ever new. I'd like to propose that it was an indie fossil, and that some Bowlie kid just dug it up. Hence it became an instant and unquenchable classic."

• Full review: Felt, Forever Breathes the Lonely Word