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With lyrics like “this c**ted circus never ends” and song titles such as “F*****g Little Bastards” and, perhaps more tellingly, “Glue”, listeners could be forgiven for thinking Irvine Welsh had relaunched a musical career he last embarked upon back in 1996 and his hilarious collaboration with Primal Scream. But “The Big Man & the Scream Meet the Barmy Army Uptown” Mark Two this isn’t. Instead it’s the fifth album of Scots folk miserabilists, Arab Strap.
Albums one, two, three and, indeed, four garnered much critical acclaim, but there have been those who have been quick to accuse the Strap, Messrs Moffett and Middleton, of becoming a parody of themselves on “Monday at the Hug and Pint”. Ach, they have a point. In the same way that people who have a go at Mike Leigh for making a Mike Leigh film and those that deride Chelsea and England’s Joe Cole for playing like Joe Cole of Chelsea and England have a point. Whilst the mood often hits post-drinking binge lows, there are more than enough highs in terms of quality of song. Loch Leven Intro is a bagpipe-heavy Braveheart of a track. Despite being shorter than the following, you guessed it, Loch Leven, it just about eclipses its successor. A Welshesque manifesto celebrating life north of the border, ‘Hug and Pint, a real-life Glasgow boozer by the way, is also an ode to the great god, alcohol. Ladies and Gentlemen, raise your glasses.
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