Five Questions With Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap)

Five Questions With Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap)

Almost 30 years to the day after Arab Strap released its first single, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton marked the occasion this month with the release of Half-Told Tales (Rock Action). While the two men may share a long history, they don’t share the same musical tastes—an incompatibility that may be one of Arab Strap’s greatest assets. The esteemed Scottish post-rock duo brings Half-Told Tales kicking and screaming to life with disco rhythms, electronic textures, spoken-word narratives and guitars capable of tearing a hole through all of it. Lyrical concerns range from war, economic anxiety and mental/physical decay to tyranny, disinformation and the numbing lack of human decency in public life. But Middleton and Moffat aren’t waving a white flag. They see their ninth album as an invocation of hope and solidarity—and a stirring reminder that we’re all confronting the same obstacles.

Arab Strap – Half Told Tales (album review)

It has been thirty years since Falkirk’s finest released ‘The First Big Weekend’;  the immediately iconic single full of summer ... The post Arab Strap – Half Told Tales (album review) appeared first on SNACK: Music, film, arts and culture magazine for Scotland.