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Monday At The Hug & Pint Image
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: The dour Glasgow-based duo of Aidan Moffat and Malcom Middleton return for their fifth studio album, with guest contributions from members of Bright Eyes and Mogwai.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 17
  2. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. So few men have managed to touch our scabrous hearts in such a way. Cohen, Bukowski, Barrymore, Hulk, Waterman... Middleton, Moffat.
  2. Monday at the Hug & Pint is Arab Strap's best record, and should land on every critic's 2003 top 10 list.
  3. The least bullshitting, most accomplished and first consistently great release from Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton.
  4. Q Magazine
    80
    Comeliness and brutal candour in equal measure. [Jun 2003, p.92]
  5. A set of apocalyptic relationship odes as pretty as an ornate church hymnal and as dour as the bleakest Sunday.
  6. Blender
    70
    [Moffat's] monotone is offset by colorful arrangements. [May 2003, p.114]
  7. All the restless energy adds up to a few too many diversions.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Ryanc
    Mar 4, 2005
    10
    Incredible. Arab Strap have found their coherency across an album, lyrical maturity and imaginatively warm songwriting amongst subject Incredible. Arab Strap have found their coherency across an album, lyrical maturity and imaginatively warm songwriting amongst subject matters which display modern British culture more accurately than any present group. Expand