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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Lost on Christmas Eve eve, he threw something down my neck. I didn't check what it was. When he says "Trust me", I never need to check. Then he helped me up, and the next thing I know, We were lying naked and it had started to snow. So I was late for work - Hungover, dazed and freezing. But we still made time to demonstrate How we'll wear it, come the season. Not a creature stirred. No mother, no mouse. But I still tip-toed down the hall And sneaked out of the house.