Arab Strap: new single "Haven't You Heard"

Arab Strap: new single "Haven't You Heard"

Arab Strap’s unieke signatuur wordt al sinds 1995 gekenmerkt door hun Schotse tongval, poëtische teksten en humor. De indie rock / alternative pop band levert met “I’m Totally Fine With It - Don’t Give A Fuck Anymore”, ‘their most sonically expansive album’, weer een waar meesterwerkje af. Het duo Malcolm Middleton en Aidan Moffat, met hun jarenlange productionele metgezel Paul Savage (The Delgados), staat wederom garant voor 12 nieuwe pareltjes ‘with a mix of intoxicating melodies and a threatening intensity’. Arab Strap’s gelijk vertrouwd aanvoelende en Schotse half gesproken, half gezongen songs bevatten dit keer wat extra pit, beats en urgentie (met veel maatschapplijke thema’s) en ‘furthers the band’s transformation from swooning, lo-fi, slow-core, post-rock romantics to raging, alt-pop chroniclers’.

“Hearts won’t mend, and wounds aren’t healing.

The world won’t care about how you’re feeling.

Didn’t you hear me?

Haven’t you heard?

Didn’t you know I love you?”

Following their critically-acclaimed 2021-album “As Days Get Dark” (which was their first album since 2005) the Scottish indie rock / alternative pop band Arab Strap return with their second long player for Mogwai’s Rock Action Records. The new album “I’m Totally Fine It - Don’t Give A Fuck Anymore” examines many more urgent, timely themes, such as conspiracy theories, online addiction and the forgotten souls of our seemingly connected planet, all wrapped up in the most adventurous earworms of the band’s career. The result is a record loaded with what the Arab Strap-duo Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton calls “a quiet anger”; their ‘most sonically expansive’ album with equal parts rage and love for “the tangible world and intangible world, and which one you choose to believe and engage with”.

Almost 28 years after their debut, Arab Strap have never sounded more essential, and this new record is a fierce testament to their laser focus on wider horizons. Written and performed exclusively by Middleton and Moffat, and finessed with longtime collaborator Paul Savage, the album furthers the band’s transformation from swooning, slow-core romantics to raging, alt-pop chroniclers. "I'm Totally Fine With It - Don't Give A Fuck Anymore" may sound like the title of an album by a band giving up (it’s just a text from the band’s live drummer that Moffat thought was funny), but in reality it’s an album that stands to clearly define a new creative period for Arab Strap. With the band having recently ended a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their second 1998-album “Philophobia”, this new album feels charged by a desire to move forward and explore new terrain. “The tour’s been fun, but I’ll be glad it’s over so we can move on,” laughs Middleton, while Moffat echoes him. “These gigs have been a way of saying goodbye to the old us,” he says. “It was a very gentle, quiet tour, so I expect this year we'll just be playing banger after banger - I think we've earned the right to make some noise now”.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Allatonceness

2. Bliss

3. Sociometer Blues

4. Hide Your Fires

5. Summer Season

6. Molehills

7. Strawberry Moon

8. You’re Not There

9. Haven’t You Heard

10. Safe & Well

11. Dreg Queen

12. Turn Off The Light

 

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