As Days Get Dark
by Arab Strap
User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
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  1. RandomFactor
    Mar 8, 2021
    10
    Arab Strap return with their best work yet. A dark and thrilling record filled with sly humour, tangible regret and punishing emotional honesty.
  2. Ricko
    Feb 23, 2022
    8
    Simple but so effective, Arab Strap's formula hits all the right spots here and is the ideal soundtrack to life in the Western World in the early 2020's. There are half a dozen individual highlights but all the tracks work together to make what is arguably the outfits finest record.
  3. 13Meredith
    Mar 7, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Dark, broody, brilliant it may have been a long time in the making but worth the wait… Expand
  4. hausoflilluis
    Sep 12, 2021
    8
    As the minutes go by, that difficult-to-interpret sound takes shape and enters you as something already known and recognized. I am pleased to have a first listen to the band with this album. It is absorbing the presentation of the creativity from Arab Strap after a decade that they don't get together. It may take time to understand what they say, but the atmospheric sensation is merelyAs the minutes go by, that difficult-to-interpret sound takes shape and enters you as something already known and recognized. I am pleased to have a first listen to the band with this album. It is absorbing the presentation of the creativity from Arab Strap after a decade that they don't get together. It may take time to understand what they say, but the atmospheric sensation is merely familiar.

    fav tracks: "Compersion, Pt. 1", "Bluebird", "Kebabylon", "Tears On Tour" & "I Was Once a Weak Man"
    KEY-TRACK: "Fable of the Urban Fox"    … Expand
  5. arman1321
    Apr 6, 2021
    9
    it was my first experience with Arab Strap and it was amazing, i can describe this album as a modern look to an old fashion way of making music. i hope we can listen more and more works like this and also i guess we'll find more great alternative/indie albums during 2021
  6. VASPI
    May 13, 2021
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What a nice surprise It s like summer of freedom as the dance rhythms mix with iconic lyrics like “my Polyanna loves poetry / she thinks my heaven is hell” etc etc etc etc etc etc etc… Expand

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. AllMusic
    Apr 6, 2021
    80
    Despite 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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  2. Dusted Magazine
    Mar 16, 2021
    80
    Arab Strap chronicle all the joys we seek and the catastrophes we make on what could well be their finest and most complete record. As Days Get Dark is a sordid, mordant, tender triumph.
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  3. Pitchfork
    Mar 11, 2021
    80
    As Days Get Dark embraces the old misery-loves-company adage by wrapping Moffat’s wounded words in Arab Strap’s most accessible and near-danceable songs to date.
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