"It’s definitely Arab Strap, but an older and wiser one, and quite probably a better one"The post Arab Strap announce first new album in 16 years, ‘As Days Get Dark’ appeared first on NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM.

Arab Strap, the Scottish duo made up of Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, got back together after an amicable breakup in 2016 to play a string of reunion shows. Today, they return with their first new music in 15 years, since the release of their 2005 album The Last Romance. Their new song, "The Turning…

Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton say the new song is about "resurrection and shagging"The post Arab Strap share ‘The Turning Of Our Bones’, their first new song in 15 years appeared first on NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM.

Mystique is a funny thing. When Belle And Sebastian first found their audience, a few years after they'd honed their sound in Glaswegian classrooms and practice spaces, the mystique was a huge selling point. Here was this group of mysterious Scottish people who made impossibly pretty folk-pop songs about being cripplingly shy and about looking&a...

The song was written around the time of the band's third LP 'The Boy With The Arab Strap'