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Arab Strap : Turbulence - The Remixes
Bis get to remind the world that they were into '80s-retro [I]years[/I] before it was fashionable.
- May 9, 2001
London Islington Union Chapel
Largely, to be here is to admit a fondness, even a compulsion, for enervated misery...
- Oct 7, 1999
Elephant Shoe
Love in Falkirk: it's paranoid. Not only is it paranoid, it's possessive and sadistic with a mushy centre to its gloomy ol' grizzly bear exterior....
- Aug 1, 1999
Arab Strap : Love Detective
This isn't pop so much as [I]jazz [/I]crossed with (ugh) literature....
- Jan 29, 2001
Glasgow Nice'N'Sleazy
[B]Aidan Moffat[/B] stands before a rapt throng and unveils a new woeful tale: [I]"I do 1471 the minute I get in/And if your number's not there... your stuff stays in the bin"[/I]...
- Jul 13, 1999
Blackness/Rocket, Take Your Turn
The air of drunken, confessional humiliation is spiced with more creeping nastiness than usual...
- Nov 20, 2000
Mad For Sadness
Their reputation precedeth them such that it's safe to say the world has not been losing sleep over the prospect of an [a]Arab Strap[/a] live album....
- Mar 29, 1999
