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Arab Strap
- Record Label: Rock Action
- Release Date: May 10, 2024
- Summary: The eighth full-length release from Scottish indie rock duo Arab Strap was produced by Paul Savage.
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- Record Label: Rock Action
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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May 14, 2024An album that feels like such an eruption of creative energy from a band on a renewed jag of pure inspiration.
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May 8, 2024It is punishing in its bleakness, wry in its humor, and surprisingly musically triumphant. [Mar - Jul 2024, p.81]
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MojoMay 8, 2024Thrillingly raw, it captures the pair at their most streamlined, visceral and direct, disproving F Scott Fitzgerald's theory about second acts. [Jun 2024, p.86]
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UncutMay 8, 2024Arab Strap songs mostly have a strong, vinegary flavour, and this is abracingly sour album over the long haul. The relentless misanthropic grind can drag in places. But as ever, Moffat’s withering scorn is sweetened by beautiful poetry, tender emotion and self-aware, bruise-black humour. [May 2024, p.36]
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May 13, 2024Wonderfully morose lyrics (and funny!), a pitch-perfect retro sound design that alternates between deadly serious and utterly comical, and a cohesive vision that represents the very best of their craft. Lovely stuff.
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May 20, 2024As he goes on to dig into toxic masculinity, his own ageing process and urban isolation (on the striking Safe & Well), Malcolm Middleton’s music is masterful, a combination of dense electronics and angry guitars which perfectly meet the mood of a fiercely current album.
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May 14, 2024Listening to these songs still feels like you’re eavesdropping on Moffat’s intimate exchanges and innermost thoughts, but now, more than ever, his narratives are firmly plugged into our unsettled collective consciousness.