Arab Strap As Days Get Dark LP

"It's about hopelessness and darkness," says Aidan Moffat. "But in a fun way." The Arab Strap frontman is speaking about the band's 7th studio album and their first since 2005's The Last Romance. The band who bought you the classic and legendary "The First Big Weekend" return with new music for the first time in 15 years. "It's definitely Arab Strap, but an older and wiser one, and quite probably a better one." The first track lifted from the new album "The Turning of Our Bones" saw a much welcome return to form and proved very much that Arab Strap are back from the grave and ready to rave! As the bands Malcolm Middleton told the Guardian newspaper when they profiled the band upon news of their return, "There's no point getting back together to release mediocrity."

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.

...[T]he record seethes with the grimy intensity Arab Strap captured in their earliest peaks.... While Arab Strap albums can be almost draining in their darkness, they also convey a specific kind of disturbed beauty. Despite the lengthy dormant period that preceded it, As Days Get Dark is a perfect document of that beauty, offering a listening experience as chilling, nihilistically funny, and emotionally overpowering as anything the band produced before it.