Album Rating: 4.5
Tears on Tour is a tragicomic masterpiece lol
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Album Rating: 3.0
I honestly don't know how to feel about this. I like the production / use of beats. His accent is the good kind of Scottish. I like the humorous angle, but then does the silliness also detract from the overall sadboi experience? Let me wallow. The spoken word style lends itself to a bit of wallowing, potentially. It's a tough balancing act
The 'IMG' segment was a sore point (no, I didn't have a 'sore point', dirty-minded filth smh)... What's wrong with a semi (lol 'semi') obvious metaphor for such things, so that I can pretend it means something else when I'm feeling prudish?
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Album Rating: 2.5
The earlier albums are definitely much more convincing if you're looking to wallow. Philophobia, red thread, even elephant shoe are far superior
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Album Rating: 4.5
This is much too wily and sardonic to be a proper sadboi record (earlier Strap is defs off the deep end if all you want from this band is a mooch) - feel the humour largely brings extra depth to otherwise meaningful descriptions, and the songwriting here is watertight on a level idc if they cared/aspired for previously. Fogza just hates to dance and loves to sulk
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Album Rating: 2.5
kind of weird me being in the corner of the more mysterious, intricate and complex iteration of a band, and johnny defending the dad joke version
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Album Rating: 4.0
"I'm totally fine with it 👍don't give a fuck anymore 👍" out May 10th, new single "Bliss" is out now.
https://arabstrapband.bandcamp.com/album/im-totally-fine-with-it-dont-give-a-fuck-anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NReQ2dA0ncg&ab_channel=ArabStrap
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Album Rating: 5.0
uhh okay! silly title but we’ll roll with it
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Album Rating: 4.5
The cover is very funny if indeed that remains the official cover art
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Album Rating: 4.5
Hopeful that it’s as good as this. The bandcamp lists 2 release dates though?? May 10th and then April 1st??
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Album Rating: 4.5
Some of the new one really sounds like National instrumentals, quite interesting that
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Album Rating: 5.0
new one is better than I expected it to be, not just a repeat of ADGD and deftly weaves in some old school strap post rock. lovely
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm enjoying it but not as instantly grabby as the previous one so far
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Album Rating: 5.0
certainly not, though it has a tasty atmosphere and quite noisy at times. molehills is my standout right now
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Album Rating: 4.0
Vocals and melodies also remind me of Sad Songs/Alligator era National in spots (which of course betrays the influence Arab Strap had on those guys early on)
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Album Rating: 4.5
Loving how the heavy guitars finally coming in on the opener of the new one makes all that came before on that track seem even more sinister.
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Album Rating: 4.5
'Haven't You Heard' is the best National song in about the last ten years...think I'm ready to 4.5 the new one
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Album Rating: 4.5
New one is the best album about online behaviour since the last Alex Cameron
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Still need to give it a listen
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Album Rating: 4.5
Some classic lyrics...I mean that's a given I know, but they're really growing on me now
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Album Rating: 4.0
8:46, and I was heading home
Parents took their children's hands as I approached
Strangers on buses gave silent applause
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