As Days Get Dark Arab Strap

• 1The Turning of Our Bones05:03
• 2Another Clockwork Day03:30
• 3Compersion, Pt. 103:37
• 4Bluebird02:52
• 5Kebabylon05:15
• 6Tears On Tour04:29
• 7Here Comes Comus!04:14
• 8Fable of the Urban Fox04:55
• 9I Was Once a Weak Man03:27
• 10Sleeper06:24
• 11Just Enough03:33
• Total Runtime47:19

Info for As Days Get Dark

A brilliant return. After a 16-year break, the new album by Arab Strap and already a contender for the title of artwork of the year. At least. "As Days Get Dark", the first album by the Scottish duo - Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton - after a 16-year break and their seventh long player after "The Last Romance", is both evolution and revolution at the same time. What remains is the interwoven mixture of dark post-rock soundscapes, subtle electronics, clicking drum beats, apocalyptic strings and Moffat's incomparable half-sung, half-spoken vocals, but expanded by a multitude of new sounds such as saxophone passages and disco grooves. The album was created in collaboration with producer Paul Savage (The Delgados).

"The gentle melodies and organic sounds, however, pour into the whole body via the bloodstream and act like a warm band from within. 'As Days Get Dark' is an album that makes you feel understood on dark days." (stereoplay)

"On their seventh album, Arab Strap find ways and means - with the help of old producer buddy PAUL SAVAGE - to bring the unpredictable musical experiments of the past into the present on a high level in a remarkably elegant mix of new wave, kraut and post-rock elements, club beats, e-pop and weird guitar pop with occasionally innovative approaches, such as jazzy brass sections, techno synths and bevelled string parts. Especially in terms of songwriting and arrangement, the guys go one better and present a remarkably sovereign, brilliant, age-appropriate late work at the height of time. The only thing that hasn't changed is the sleepily shuffling, decidedly unambitious vocals, which are characterised by a strong Scottish accent". (Ullrich Maurer, musikreviews.de)

Arab Strap

Arab Strap
are a Scottish indie rock band whose core members are Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton.

It’s becoming increasingly difficult, over time, to adequately sum up the importance, influence or impact Arab Strap and the respective solo projects of Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton have had on Chemikal Underground. They remain one of the very few bands we ever signed from a demo tape (admittedly they got in right at the start when we only received a handful every month) and went on to become one of the most influential bands this nation’s ever produced.

Describing Arab Strap’s music now almost seems like a pointless exercise: everyone’s familiar with their brand of storytelling and the singular musical vision that backed it up, but that’s exactly the point: Arab Strap blazed a trail for the kind of honest, colloquial songwriting that has become so common nowadays. We’ve had great bands as a result too: The Twilight Sad being a case in point.

The fact is that from the simplest, boldest beginnings (The Week Never Starts Round Here) to the fully formed, reflective brilliance of their swansong (The Last Romance), Arab Strap never failed to be unique. They were one of a kind and it’s not just Chemikal Underground that owes them a debt of gratitude, we all do.

This album contains no booklet.