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Monday At The Hug & Pint (Vinyl)

By: Arab Strap (Artist)

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Arab Strap Artist Snapshot:

Scottish ensemble Arab Strap are one of the few U.K. indie-rock acts to have embraced the American slowcore genre pioneered by bands like Slint and Codeine. The band's wry low-key dirges concern the cornerstones of the working-class malaise: sex, drugs, and the pub. Though Arab Strap have a distinct, fully formed sound, the band remains mercurial and artistically challenging, making for a true pop music curiosity.

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Review

Rolling Stone (5/1/03, p.56) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Pretty, slow-burning soundtracks for rainy days and lonely nights..."
Magnet (6-7/03, p.87) - "...There's a touch of Tindersticks rewriting New Order's POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES at a marriage counselor's convention....MONDAY is the greatest in a line of albums..."
CMJ (04/21/03, p.8) - "...Sparse ballads fit beside 'louder' rock songs like a carefully constructed jigsaw puzzle, but the band's knack for capturing hope, desperation, lost love and lust, often all in the same song, is still as sharp as ever..."
Mojo (Publisher) (5/03, p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Middleton's guitar arpeggios remain unique and evocative..."

Title Note

Arab Strap: Malcolm Middleton, Aidan Moffat.

By the time they reunited to record 2003's Monday AT THE HUG & PINT after getting their respective solo albums out of their systems, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton's dystopian lyrical vision of their Scottish surroundings was fully realized. The band's musical self assurance is in direct contrast to its unrelentingly stark subject matter: in Arab Strap country, joy is fleeting, emotional pain is a constant companion, and it's always raining. But the band's music is often disconcertingly sweet, as in the pastoral-sounding "Loch Leven," while "Glue," where Moffat sings in characteristically enervated fashion about the dangers of love without sex, has an almost ambient feel, leavening the song's unblinking realism.

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