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- Summary: This is the first new full-length release in over 15 years from the Scottish indie rock duo of Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton.
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- Record Label: Rock Action
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 15 out of 16
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Mixed: 1 out of 16
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Mar 4, 2021Arab Strap are back with a vengeance. And it’s fucking glorious.
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Mar 2, 2021A comeback that not only beats expectations but has an excellent claim to be the band's crowning achievement (so far).
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Mar 3, 2021With lyrics that encompass the reality of ageing with all its wisdom and regrets, and with music that employs the deftness of touch that can only come with long-term honing, Arab Strap have delivered their defining record.
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UncutMar 2, 2021A comeback album that feels vital rather than forced. [Apr 2021, p.25]
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Mar 4, 2021As Days Get Dark carries on their traditions of intimate ambience and tug-of-war technique, but commendably, it doesn’t seek to summarize so much as add to their inimitable story.
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Apr 6, 2021Despite the lengthy dormant period that preceded it, As Days Get Dark is a perfect document of that beauty, offering a listening experience as chilling, nihilistically funny, and emotionally overpowering as anything the band produced before it.
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Mar 2, 2021Arab Strap’s first studio album together since 2005’s The Last Romance is marked by a feeling of not quite-ness; everything’s there but it just doesn’t quite click into its potential at many points. A good half of the record treads in similar ground to opener and comeback single The Turning of Our Bones; drum machines, faintly angular guitar arpeggios and Moffat’s largely spoken dissection of middle age.
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Positive: 6 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Mar 8, 2021Arab Strap return with their best work yet. A dark and thrilling record filled with sly humour, tangible regret and punishing emotional honesty.
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Mar 7, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Apr 6, 2021
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May 13, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 12, 2021
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Feb 23, 2022
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