‘Come Monday Night’, an orchestrated pop song from the pen of Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch, is the first single release from the ‘God Help The Girl’ album, to be released by Rough Trade, on 22nd June 2009. It’s a bona fide pop classic that’d sound brilliant from a tinny transistor on a blistering hot day in Swinging London.

‘God Help The Girl’ is a project that sees an assortment of female singers backed by Belle & Sebastian. It’s a story set to music, which Murdoch has been working on intermittently for the last five years and his first new music since Belle and Sebastian’s seventh album, ‘The Life Pursuit’ in 2006.

"I was out for a run and I got this tune in my head,” says Stuart of the album. “It occurred to me that it wasn’t a Belle & Sebastian song. I could hear female voices and strings, I could hear the whole thing, but I just couldn’t envisage myself singing it with the group.”