My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Malcolm Middleton of Scottish duo Arab Strap.
Arab Strap also features Aidan Moffat. This March they released As Days Get Dark, their first album in 16 years. The band’s last album was 2005’s The Last Romance. Since then Middleton and Moffat have remained active with solo work and other projects. The duo formed in 1995, releasing their debut single, “The First Big Weekend,” and debut album, The Week Never Starts Round Here, in 1996.
Previous collaborator Paul Savage, formerly of The Delgados, produced . “Paul brings comfort and trust,” said Middleton in a press release announcing the album, “and
