Arab Strap

The first one was a band called Aerogram.

The second one was Arab Strap.

Yeah.

Um, they, this is their first piece of released music.

It might have just been like, we emailed them and sent the demo.

It might have been through Arab Strap.

It might have been through the Delgados.

But they, they basically, it was the, that's the first release of their music in the UK.

Mm-hmm

... a band called Arab Strap.

He did a, a, an album called Where You're Meant To Be, and it turned into a documentary.

Mm-hmm.

They're out of Wales with their track War Movies off of their album called On the Intricate Inner Workings of a System.

And before that, we had Fighting For You by Arab Strap.

They just released a new album called Half Told Tales.

Uh, pretty fun kind of, um...

So hold fire on that one.

Arab Strap are back.

Their ninth studio album is not messing around.

Half-Told Tales sounds gigantic from the second it begins.

Album and vinyl are the same because this one is so far ahead of anything else I've listened to recently.

Arab Strap, a fine Scottish band.

I confess that I was never that blown away by them first time round.

Then they split up, did their own separate things a couple of years and they have come back.

Anyway, a couple of things I was enjoying while I was on my travels.

The new album from Arab Strap, Half Tall Tales.

perfect soundtrack for men of my vintage Stephen I loved it I thought they just speak to me they just talk about all the ills that one suffers in their mid-fifth in that wonderful Scottish brogue speaking of men in my vintage of course you had the new single from The War on Drugs who's that another elongated epic for those that like that sort of thing if you haven't been watching Lanterns jump on it it is an absolutely cracking TV show so it is so get on that so they're my three pulls for this week

Did you think that Kelly MacDonald in a policeman's uniform would escape me? She wears oil.

So please do let us know if there's anything we've missed.

So back on the 4th of September, Arab Strap released an album called Half-Told Tales.

For those of you that don't know Arab Strap, A, you should know Arab Strap.

B, they are an indie rock...

They're so hard to...

And tonight when you Remember all the angels are watching So put on a good show

All right, that was Arab Strap, I Get Noise.

I like to think of us reaching out to a band like Arab Strap and saying, hey, we want to use your song on a run cast, a running podcast.

I just picture them over there in their axes.

It's like, oh, really? It works, though.