Arab Strap
Heaven Nightclub, WC2N 6NG , [Venue Details]“This time we put everything on it,” says Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat. “We normally have three or four songs left over from a session but with this one, it was like, fuck it.”
With a huge anniversary milestone imminent, there was a feeling of letting it all hang out.
“We’ve done this for 30 years, so why hide anything? Why be unsure?” continues Moffat. “This way, it gives you a better picture of what we’ve been working on and shows the full breadth of what we’re doing, and hopefully there’s a few surprises.”
The surprises are there from the off on the band’s 14-track album, their third since reforming in 2016, having had a 10-year break before that. The opening ‘I Get Noise’ fuses big, heavy crunchy guitar riffs, crashing drums, and free flowing saxophone, as Moffat imagines searching for solitude and escape in a world of screeching uproar. “I thought it was quite funny that I was singing about yearning for a quiet life but then having something musically screaming in the background,” he says of the duality of the song.
And then immediately we move onto ‘You You You’, a track that bubbles to life sounding like some long-lost killer Italo disco record – with Moffat’s vocal refrain of the song’s title creating one of the most outright melodically infectious songs the band have ever made – and that’s before Malcolm Middleton’s punchy and spiralling guitar lines burst through it. The result is something that feels like an entirely new genre.
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Admission: £34.19
Performer name: Arab Strap
Age restriction: 14+, U16 accompanied by 18+ (photo ID required)
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“This time we put everything on it,” says Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat. “We normally have three or four songs left over from a session but with this one, it was like, fuck it.”
With a huge anniversary milestone imminent, there was a feeling of letting it all hang out.
“We’ve done this for 30 years, so why hide anything? Why be unsure?” continues Moffat. “This way, it gives you a better picture of what we’ve been working on and shows the full breadth of what we’re doing, and hopefully there’s a few surprises.”
The surprises are there from the off on the band’s 14-track album, their third since reforming in 2016, having had a 10-year break before that. The opening ‘I Get Noise’ fuses big, heavy crunchy guitar riffs, crashing drums, and free flowing saxophone, as Moffat imagines searching for solitude and escape in a world of screeching uproar. “I thought it was quite funny that I was singing about yearning for a quiet life but then having something musically screaming in the background,” he says of the duality of the song.
And then immediately we move onto ‘You You You’, a track that bubbles to life sounding like some long-lost killer Italo disco record – with Moffat’s vocal refrain of the song’s title creating one of the most outright melodically infectious songs the band have ever made – and that’s before Malcolm Middleton’s punchy and spiralling guitar lines burst through it. The result is something that feels like an entirely new genre.
Admission: £34.19
Performer name: Arab Strap
Age restriction: 14+, U16 accompanied by 18+ (photo ID required)
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