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Monday at the Hug and Pint [Import]

~ Arab Strap
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (22 April 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Matador
  • ASIN: B00008OLYU
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 431,405 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Shy Retirer
2. Meanwhile, At the Bar, A Drunkard Muses
3. Fucking Little Bastards
4. Peep-Peep
5. Flirt
6. Who Named the Days?
7. Loch Leven (Intro)
8. Loch Leven
9. Glue
10. Act of War
11. Serenade
12. Week Never Starts Round Here
13. Pica Luna

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Habitually described as groggy, beer-stained romantics, Falkirk's Arab Strap seem unusually happy with the stereotype. Hence Monday at the Hug & Pint, their fifth album, is a concept of album of sorts, a selection of songs about love and alcohol and related miseries apparently beamed direct from a pub, The Hug & Pint. The second track is called, with the Strap's usual eloquent precision, Meanwhile, at the Bar, a Drunkard Muses. Subverting expectations is less important, it appears, than drinking themselves into a corner.

It's a curious thing to do, especially when Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton's last album, 2001's emotionally expansive The Red Thread, transcended such parochialism. ...The Hug & Pintis a murky, if often engaging, retrenchment. Bagpipes swirl forlornly, drum machines splutter, string sections bring the usual illusion of gentility. Moffat's familiarly surly, heartsick mutter, meanwhile, goes on cataloguing his own iniquities long into the night.

That lyrical insight and Middleton's empathetic music ensure the likes of "Who Named the Days?" are still compelling, in spite of the deja vu their wobbly tenderness evokes. If, at times, ...The Hug & Pint staggers perilously close to self-parody, there's something noble and doomed here, too: a pinched, beguiling aesthetic vision being pursued until time is finally called. --John Mulvey

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Meanwhile, at the bar, a drunkard reviews..., 20 April 2003
By G. J. Weaver "elweaverino" (Chester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monday at the Hug & Pint (Audio CD)
"Monday at the Hug and Pint" is arguably Arab Strap's best album to date. It combines the lo-fi eclecticism of their first album, with the great sonic leaps forward made on their last long player "The Red Thread". Both permanent members of the band, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, have released solo albums since "The Red Thread", and the time apart to stretch and experiment has obviously done them some good. The song "The Week Never Starts Around Here" is very reminiscient of the stuff on Malcolm's superb album "5:14.....", and that's no bad thing.

There is also the addition of a string section on a lot of the tracks here, which lifts the proceedings onto another level entirely.

As always, the lyrics have the usual grim humour about them. The opening track "The Shy Retirer" begins like a cheesy dance track, but switches into a scathing description of the monotony of the average weekend. "Another bloated disco", moans Aidan, "another sniff of romance I'll forget." Other stand out tracks include the soporific waltz "Who named the days?", and bagpipe layered folkie "Loch Leven".

The Strap's philosophy seems to be that if we are all in the gutter, then lets get hammered, talk about girls and give the v's behind the back of anyone poncing around staring at the stars. And, y'know, it makes such perfect sense.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Swirling low-fi brilliance, 29 Feb 2004
This review is from: Monday at the Hug & Pint (Audio CD)
The latent beauty of this album is locked underneath some magnificent production and subtle licks and trails, it winds on endlessly and can only really be properly listened to in the dark early hours of the morning after some nice central nervous system therapy if you get my drift. Everything gels so perfectly that I wouldnt be overstating calling this a work of genius. More eclectic than elephant shoe, even though I do prefer that album for different reasons, its secrets will be a permanent and potent fuel to my imagination like few others can touch.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sad brilliance, 11 Nov 2006
By G. Munday "www.myspace.com/garymunday" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monday at the Hug & Pint (Audio CD)
Slurrings heavily laced with a Scottish tongue and more swearwords than expected for tunes involving string accompaniments and acoustic guitars (`Fucking Little Bastards' or lyrics like "so come on darling, break my heart// mess me about then shag all my friends" speak volumes, don't they?), there is something unnervingly brilliant about Arab Strap.

There is a backbone that is full of stored venom and released in such a delicate and saddening way that contributes to the whole release being memorable - and somewhere in all this, there is a bitter influence from drink, making it a devastating masterpiece. If this is the result of going to the Hug & Pint on a Monday, then thank their aching hearts that Arab Strap attended - you can certainly hear the drink talking at points.

And as well as this, there is a delicate underside, best exemplified by the tortured string arrangements with expressive lyrics like: `If your hair was a call to arms/ And your legs were what skirts are for/ Then your mouth was a red alert/ But your eyes were an act of war'.

All work projects a message: this is what comes natural and has been intensely nurtured. Sure, this could be said for many an album, but this is so prominent that it brings an authenticity to the tracks and a genuine guarantee that Scottish heart and soul is in there somewhere.
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