Arab Strap live at the London Garage, Aug ’22 (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)
The gig concluded Arab Strap’s UK tour on August 22nd.
Arab Strap were live in London on Monday night following the 2021 release of As Days Get Dark, the duo’s first post-2016 reunion studio album.
“As storytellers, Moffatt and Middleton were often feted for their ability to glean droplets of compassion from the lives of outsiders most would dismiss as ruined or desperate, but now that holding up a microscope to hedonism is as simple as filming something grim on a phone, where do they fit?,” our review reads.
“The answer is nestled amongst our prejudices and paranoia as before, just in places we didn’t know even existed at the time.”
“Kebabylon takes whispered remorse a step further, a toil of a 3am walk through a city centre in the now Littler Britain, while Bluebird is exhausted with social media; ‘Locked in our loops of half-truths and trifles/And who are you anyway? Who am I anyway?’.”
