Arab Strap: The Week Never Starts Round Here - VINYL LP

Arab Strap: The Week Never Starts Round Here - VINYL LPTitle: The Week Never Starts Round Here Artist: Arab Strap Label: 1972 Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 852545003844 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2019 10 11 Number of Discs: 1 The year 1996 saw the release of Arab Strap's first single, "The First Big Weekend," and debut album The Week Never Starts Round Here. Into an underground rock milieu preoccupied at the time with slo core, math rock, and all things Pet Sounds, the duo of Malcolm Middleton and Aidan

Title: The Week Never Starts Round Here
Artist: Arab Strap
Label: 1972
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 852545003844
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2019-10-11
Number of Discs: 1

The year 1996 saw the release of Arab Strap's first single, "The First Big Weekend," and debut album The Week Never Starts Round Here. Into an underground rock milieu preoccupied at the time with slo-core, math rock, and all things Pet Sounds, the duo of Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat couldn't have sounded more alien. In many ways, The Week Never Starts Round Here bears all the marks of a debut: it's raw, unguarded, and crammed with ideas. It also firmly establishes the particular set-up that would define Arab Strap's sound over the course of eleven years, with Middleton handling the music while Moffat provides the vocals and lyrics. Even this division of labor-more common to rap music than to the shoegazers and increasingly ubiquitous "collectives" of indie rock-seemed to defy expectations. The sound of Arab Strap is a distinct brand of existential miserablism. Middleton's cleverly arranged foundation of nocturnal guitars and rudimentary drum machines provides a canvas for Moffat to relay, in a thick Scottish dialect, his many sloshed, candid confessions. Long before artists like Mike Skinner chronicled the picaresque days of lads getting pissed and getting laid, Arab Strap's vivid tales of lovers, lager and shame were being broadcast on college stations everywhere. The Week Never Starts Round Here is an album full of drugged-up kisses and dried up egos; it chronicles the conquests and knockbacks of weekends that last forever, and it does so unapologetically, poetically, and profanely. Indie rock would never be the same.

Tracks:
1.1 Coming Down
1.2 The Clearing
1.3 Driving 4. Gourmet
1.4 I Work In A Saloon
1.5 Wasting
1.6 General Plea To A Girlfriend
1.7 The First Big Weekend
1.8 Kate Moss
1.9 Little Girls
1.10 Phone Me Tonight
1.11 Blood
1.12 Deeper