As Days Get Dark
On their first album in 16 years, the Scottish duo situates themselves in the current moment, teasing out new modes of songwriting while remaining as wry, dark, and self-lacerating as ever.
Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton have returned with a record that's dark, debauched, tragic – and strangely beautiful
The vivid, often lurid portraits Aidan Moffat paints of the society around him feel more vital than ever.
Legendarily bleak Glaswegian duo Arab Strap were one of the more depraved indie pop-adjacent bands to rise out of the late '90s, producing a discography of brooding instrumentals graced by semi-spoken word portrayals of drunkenness, misadventure, pornography, and other nefarious behavior.
"I don't give a fuck about the past, the glory days gone by." When it comes to Arab Strap, it seems like there's no other reasonable way to...
It’s been fifteen long years since Arab Strap last came together on an album, leaving fans with only the odd reunion tour to keep them going.
There was a poetic arc to Arab Strap’s initial run from “The First Big Weekend†to The Last Romance—“Ten Years of Tears,†as the Scottish duo clocked it.
Sex. Death. Tears. Love. The march of time and the flight of foxes. What couldn’t Arab Strap write a song about? Their seventh studio album, 'As
The caustic duo forge existential stories from tinny beats on their first album in 16 years
Scottish gutter poets Arab Strap are on fine form on the first album in 16 years – grubby, hedonistic, and incredibly compelling
The dead rising should always be a cause of trepidation. Our loved ones may return inconceivably altered, void of spirit, even dangerous (to memory)
As Days Get Dark by Arab Strap album review by Adam Williams. The full-length is now available via Rock Action Records
A welcome musical return from the caustic Scottish duo. Album review by Lisa-Marie Ferla