ARAB STRAP
Sometimes you don’t realise what you have until it slips away. Since Arab Strap stopped making music, so many other bands sounded just a little anodyne. Not bad as such, just occasionally a little bland.
Vocalist Aidan Moffat and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton formed Arab Strap in 1995. Growing up together in Falkirk, the pair started out musically by sharing their home-recorded tapes with friends.
These reflected their environment, bawdy anecdotes and in-jokes, but the tales of sex, death and crushing comedowns attracted attention from legendary Glasgow label, Chemikal Underground. Soon, their debut album, The Week Never Starts Round, was delighting listeners everywhere with its startling post-rock dynamics and bittersweet accounts of weekend misadventure.
