- Record Label: Chemikal Underground
- Release Date: Mar 3, 2009
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The songs themselves feel loose, a bit non-cohesive, making How to Get to Heaven... a good, though not great, album.
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All too often, overly simplistic melodies meander repetitively as Moffat struggles mightily to stay on key.
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It’s clear this ‘Falkirk miserablist’ has finally found contentment.
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We get his best on How to Get to Heaven From Scotland, an album any Arab Strap fan could love.
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Overall, the album will be a pleasant sleeping album for casual ambient fans, but connoisseurs of the genre best look elsewhere for their fix.
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Q MagazineWhile at times this debut with The Best-Ofs still portrays him as apotty-mouthed cynic who regards romance as black farce, it seems that a light of commitment and imminent parenthood has been turned on. [Mar 2009, p.102]
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MojoHearing Aidan Moffat in such jocose mood on his first song-based record without Malcolm Middleton is quite the revelation. [Apr 2009, p.99]
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UncutThe clumsy pot-banging campfire folk of his backing band doesn't help make it all any more listenable. Great lyrics, though. [Mar 2009, p.92]
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Under The RadarMoffat's drawn from a more experimental palette, illustrated nicely on his fine outing with ad hoc backing band The Best-Ofs. [Spring 2009, p.72]