Arab Strap
I'm Totally Fine With It Don't Give a Fuck Anymore
Release Date: May 10, 2024
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Rock Action
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Album Review: I'm Totally Fine With It Don't Give a Fuck Anymore by Arab Strap
Fantastic, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 9/10
The ancient bleep and buzz of dial-up opens and closes Arab Strap's eighth and probably best album. These bookends serve to humorously demarcate the online realm that much of this record inhabits, while also nodding at the advancing age of its creators. It is a brutal, painful record in which all is lost, ugly, and hopeless. It is also beautiful and funny.
Opinion: Excellent
Scottish duo Arab Strap were always iconoclasts. Their debut single, ‘The First Big Weekend’, came out at the height of Britpop and, while on the surface it looked to chime with much of the scene's arms-around-your-mates beeriness, it was a tale of a cycle of self-destruction that foreshadowed the movement's own implosion. The band's Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton were in their early 20s at the time of ‘The First Big Weekend’ .
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