ARAB STRAP - The Week Never Starts LP experimental ’ Hawkwinds’ ‘Silver Machine’ or

’ Hawkwinds’ ‘Silver Machine’ or even Deep Purples’ ‘Space Truckin

my father took a seat behind his organ or recorded a musician who was passing through to create these albums of production music that are amalgamations of fragments and scattered ideas

Buzzcocks or Australia's own The Victims

uniting in a singular

And while last year’s Visionary Pangs LP (released with Das Menace on the S-S label) was a grower and a half

ARAB STRAP - The Week Never Starts LP experimental ’ Hawkwinds’ ‘Silver Machine’ orRIYL: Tindersticks, Slint The year 1996 saw the release of Arab Straps first single, The First Big Weekend, and debut album The Week Never Starts Round Here. Into an underground rock milieu preoccupied at the time with slo core, math rock, and all things Pet Sounds, the duo of Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat couldnt have sounded more alien. In many ways, The Week Never Starts Round Here bears all the marks of a debut: its raw, unguarded, and