Simon mentioned this record a month or two ago. It's been out for a while in the UK, but just got released here. If you caught the Mojo: Made in Britain free CD sampler last month, you might have heard "A Brighter Beat" in amongst the boy and girl bands...sounding sort of like a philosopher caught at McDonalds. Anyway wonderful, mordant, downbeat stuff from half of the now defunct Arab Stra...
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... and Santa turns out to be a depressed, staggering, whiskey-swigging Scot. Or so the official "festive" video for "We're All Going To Die" has it. The song leads off the ex-Arab Strap Malcolm Middleton's 2007 solo album A Brighter Beat. (The Santa in the video is not Middleton himself, but Kim Noble.) How fitting. I mean, If I'd had to venture out to shops and malls in the past couple of wee...
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Exhibit A: Listen to "We're All Going to Die" on Malcolm Middleton's "MySpace page":http://www.myspace.com/malcolmmiddleton.Exhibit B:Of course, Malcolm, no one has ever seen "Sesame Street."
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Simon mentioned this record a month or two ago. It's been out for a while in the UK, but just got released here. If you caught the Mojo: Made in Britain free CD sampler last month, you might have heard "A Brighter Beat" in amongst the boy and girl bands...sounding sort of like a philosopher caught at McDonalds. Anyway wonderful, mordant, downbeat stuff from half of the now defunct Arab Stra...
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My current musical obsession: Malcolm Middleton, espescially the song Fight Like the Night off his most recent album, this year's A Brighter Beat (on Full Time Hobby records).It's a fantastic indie rock duet with the lovely Jenny Reeve with some fantastic lyrics ("Crawl into this rut with me and hold my chin up") and great keyboard and guitar lines. I cannot stop listening to it.
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I heard on 6 Music this morning that this song is one of the favourites to be number at Christmas. Can this be true or did I dream it? It was early, I mean before the sun rose. It would be bloody brilliant if it was.
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