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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:37 pm
Track 10 - Sleeper.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:38 pm
I'm knicking that 'Well, Mick Jagger does it and he's older than me'
Second to last one, Sleeper.
Is this about Louise Wener?
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:38 pm
Nightjar wrote:
Has their stuff always been like this?
Also, is this a concept album?
With a narrative and all that malarky?
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:39 pm
Nightjar wrote:
Has their stuff always been like this?
It's usually more depressing. Sometimes they go full on guitar noise, occasionally full on
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:41 pm
I think they're weren't quite as wordy though…
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:41 pm
Random sax.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:44 pm
Last track - Just Enough.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:44 pm
Last one - Just Enough
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:45 pm
Basically, more of the same.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:46 pm
Kinda sexy
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:46 pm
And the feeling's kinda sexehh.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:47 pm
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:47 pm
Lame last track.
Just waiting for it to end now/
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:47 pm
It is over.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:48 pm
It is over.
It was basically just the same song, over and over again, for 48 minutes.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:48 pm
I shall give it 2 stars.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:52 pm
Well, I'm a bit baffled now.
God's honest truth I've never heard anything by this band before now (I know the band's name well though, obviously).
There was a lot musically to like.
It plateaued strongly on that front during the middle third of the album and during that time the ham-fistedly pretentious vocal stylings began to work.
But...
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:56 pm
All things considered, it does make me curious about their back catalogue.
I think that the last year-or-so has made some bands and artists go a bit odd/daring.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:56 pm
Nightjar wrote:
I think that the last year-or-so has made some bands and artists go a bit odd/daring.
That one wasn't.
Guest wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Has their stuff always been like this?
It's usually more depressing*. Sometimes they go full on guitar noise**, occasionally full on ***
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Sorry, where was I, it was alright. Not their best. Could have been a lot worse mind you.
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Subject: Re: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (2021) Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:01 pm
Possibly a bit too long and too wordy.
There's two of them, one does everything musical and the other one does the the other stuff.
The singer has made some wonderful experimental instrumental stuff,
The other guy's made some really boring self obsessed singer songwriter stuff, go figure eh?
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Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:37 pm
Sometimes they go full on guitar noise, occasionally full on 