Following their critically-acclaimed return after a 16-year hiatus (with 2021’s As Days Get Dark), Arab Strap now announces their 2nd long player for Mogwai’s Rock Action Records. I’m totally fine with it  don’t give a fuck anymore is due May 10th, 2024 and will be available to pre-order/pre-save digitally in North America starting February 8th, on emoji yellow colored vinyl, CD and black vinyl. Pre-order link (live Feb 8th) I’m totally fine with it  don’t give a fuck anymore  HERE

To coincide with this new album announcement is the release today of the first single “Bliss,” a song that perfectly exemplifies their most sonically expansive album to date. An almost entirely electronic disco banger with just a hint of trusty guitar, it’s Arab Strap at its most immediate and vital. Lyrically, the song addresses the horrors of online hate, as vocalist Aidan Moffat says “It’s about women being terrorized online; it’s about cowardice and bigotry. It’s about how we expose ourselves on social platforms while hiding alone at home. But you can dance to it too!” The track comes accompanied by a video directed by award-winning, Glasgow-based director Ains featuring a striking dancer personifying a character trapped in a dystopian realm.

The album examines many more urgent, timely themes, such as conspiracy theories, online addiction, and the forgotten souls of our seemingly connected planet, all wrapped up in the most adventurous earworms of the band’s career. The result is a record loaded with what Moffat calls “a quiet anger,” an album with equal parts rage and love for “the tangible world and intangible world, and which one you choose to believe and engage with.”

May 20th – The Brickyard, Carlisle

May 21st – Fire Station, Sunderland

May 22nd – Castle & Falcon, Birmingham

May 23rd – Lantern, Bristol

May 24th – Koko, London

May 25th – Gorilla, Manchester

May 26th – Brudenell, Leeds

Sept 21st – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow

Tickets available via https://www.arabstrap.scot/