Half-Told Tales Yellow Vinyl INDIE ONLY

Arab Strap’s new album Half-Told Tales, the group’s
ninth, will arrive almost three decades to the day since
their first single was released. “We’re thirty years old
this year,” says the duo, “So we decided to celebrate by
doing what we enjoy most: by making new music.”
The band have never sounded more relevant on the
state-of-affairs lead single ‘You You You’, a track that
bubbles to life sounding like some long-lost killer Italo
disco record – with Moffat’s vocal refrain of the song’s
title creating one of the most outright melodically
infectious songs the band have ever made – and that's
before Malcolm Middleton’s punchy and spiralling
guitar lines burst through it. The result is something

that feels like an entirely new genre. “A sort of disco-
metal incantation,” suggests Moffat. “With a message

of future felicity and fellowship that – fingers crossed –
might make you dance and giggle too.”