What's weird is that Arab Strap was always thought to be Aidan Moffat's vocals and lyrics with Malcolm Middleton's instrumentation. Yet, when 2007 saw the early release of solo albums from both of the members of the now defunct group, Middleton's was a straight-forward rock-y type album, while Moffat's solo output is a lush ambient album with very little in the way of vocals, certainly no growling spoken words about sex. This is the second song off of said album, and like the rest of it, it's a quiet lilting song. "Weir's Way" starts with a bit of the seagull calls that blend through from the first track but then a sweet acoustic riff comes in and it rides that riff until that gives way to some horns, and almost choral harmonies before finally picking up a beat at the 7:51 mark which it follows to the end as the music rises and surges before subsiding again. Eleven minutes and thirty-six seconds of pure bliss.
This album is being completely slept-on, though a large bit of that is due to it not having any kind of North American distribution. It's probably a Top 5 album of the year, so far, for me, though.
L.Pierre "Weir's Way"
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Sounds promising, but 'The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable.'
Seems to be working now...did you delete the Xs? My browser seems to automatically delete them, but I don't know.
Working for me now too. No idea what happened there. Ta!
Oh you lovely person. I've been meaning to get this since it came out...
PM me on one of various boards, and I could conceivably help you out with the entire thing...legally of course.........
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