Storytelling (Belle and Sebastian album)
# Storytelling (Belle and Sebastian album)

Professional ratings :

| Aggregate scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 59/100 |
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork | 6.5/10 |
| Q | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| The Times | |

Storytelling is the fifth studio album by Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian. It is the score to the Todd Solondz movie Storytelling. Belle and Sebastian experienced many problems in communication with Solondz while scoring the film, and as such only about six minutes of their music was actually used in the movie. The album contains five tracks that are recorded dialogues. The instrumental track "Fuck This Shit" uses the prosody of the title phrase in a number of different keys but never the words themselves. The album was the band's final release on Jeepster, as they went on to sign a deal with Rough Trade the following year.

## Charts

Chart performance for Storytelling :

| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
| - | - |
| French Albums (SNEP) | 55 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) | 99 |
| Irish Albums (IRMA) | 42 |
| Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) | 32 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) | 29 |
| UK Albums (OCC) | 26 |
| US Billboard 200 | 150 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) | 12 |
