After drawing critical praise and massive college radio support for its last two albums, 1996's "If You're Feeling Sinister" and 1998's "The Boy With The Arab Strap," the mysterious Glaswegian band known as Belle And Sebastian has emerged with a new record, "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant," which will be issued in America on June 6.

Since forming in 1995, the members of Belle And Sebastian have tended to keep themselves in relative seclusion, playing only a handful of shows in the U.S. and Europe, and have avoided most media requests and interviews -- all while releasing some of the most delicately crafted, emotion-laden chamber pop of the last decade.

Because of the Stateside success of "The Boy With The Arab Strap," which was cited by "Rolling Stone" magazine as one of its Essential Recordings Of The '90s, the band has decided to open itself up and actually submit to promotional interviews in support of "Fold Your Hands."

MTV News recently chatted with Belle And Sebastian drummer Richard Colburn, who talked about why the band has chosen to avoid the media spotlight for so long as well as the meaning behind the lugubriously wordy title of its new album.

"It's funny, because I don't know what it means at all," Colburn admitted. Colburn continued, "but I don't think too many people know what it means, if it means anything at all, specifically. I just think it was quite a cool sort of phrase." [RealAudio]

As for the band's reclusiveness, Colburn said that it was a choice that he, Murdoch, and bandmates Isobel Campbell, Chris Geddes, Stevie Jackson, Sarah Martin, and Stuart David (who has since left the group to devote himself to his own band, Looper) made when they first formed Belle And Sebastian, although he said it has led to some bizarre rumors about the group.

"[The biggest misconception] is the whole cult thing," Colburn said, he added. "We're totally approachable, but we didn't do interviews for one reason or another, and it's our own fault, in a way, for not coming across in the media and stuff. But that was the way we were working at the time, and we'll probably do that again after [this], 'cause we've done a lot of interviews lately." [RealAudio]

Belle And Sebastian has already shot a video with director Lance Bangs for "The Wrong Girl," the first U.S. single from "Fold Your Hands," while Campbell has helmed the clip for the band's separate "Legal Man" single.