Arab Strap

Arab Strap occupy the dark and broken heart of Cool Britannia; their second album,
Philophobia, is the bleakest piece of Scottish pop culture since the dead-baby scene in
Trainspotting. Songwriters Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat obsess over the details of
their romantic chaos and drunken stupors, setting their disillusionment to beautiful,
uncluttered arrangements of guitar, organ and strings. Their spare, naked songs... More >