As Days Get Dark

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AlbumMar 05 / 202111 songs, 47m 20s
Indietronica
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8.0 / 10

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.

The return of Arab Strap is a solid, if not barnstorming, success.

8 / 10

"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...

8.0 / 10

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.

9 / 10

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

7 / 10

Scottish gutter poets Arab Strap are on fine form on the first album in 16 years – grubby, hedonistic, and incredibly compelling

9 / 10

The dead rising should always be a cause of trepidation. Our loved ones may return inconceivably altered, void of spirit, even dangerous (to memory)

7.0 / 10

As Days Get Dark by Arab Strap album review by Adam Williams. The full-length is now available via Rock Action Records

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Album Reviews: Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

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A welcome musical return from the caustic Scottish duo. Album review by Lisa-Marie Ferla

8 / 10