Arab Strap were a post-folk indieband from signed for the majority of their albums to independent record label Chemikal Underground. The duohad a short lived flirtation with a major label at the peak of their critical acclaim (post- Philophobia) when they signed to Go!Beat records (a former independent label now owned by Universal). Vocalist Aidan Moffatand multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middletonmet in Falkirk, Scotland, bonded over their mutual love for Drag City recording artists such as Smogand Will Oldham, and began a collaboration in 1995. The band is completed by violinist Jenny Reeveand cellist . Arab Strap's marked characteristics include frank and forthright lyrics delivered in a Scottish brogue.
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So I'm free again this summer cos you're playing with a plumber, with his own place and a car. I don't care, I'm gonna be a pop star. Well he can take you for a ride and he can buy you gifts and flowers. I'm sure he's got a nicer body then me and maybe he can go for hours and hours. But I wonder where you and him might be when you see me on the cover of the NME. After sell-out tours and a string of hits And I'm snorting cocaine off a supermodel's tits. My life is going my way. I saw you in the pub today. And you look so ugly now. Since you turned into a shallow disco cow. You're no longer my gilded shackle. So I don't have to listen to your hideous cackle. I couldn't give a toss what you do. And by the way, have you found out I was two-timing you?