Arab Strap Week Never Starts Around Here Vinyl LP 2019

Tracklist:

1. Coming Down
2. The Clearing
3. Driving 4. Gourmet
4. I Work in a Saloon
5. Wasting
6. General Plea to a Girlfriend
7. The First Big Weekend
8. Kate Moss
9. Little Girls
10. Phone Me Tonight
11. Blood
12. Deeper

Twenty-three years after it first saw the light of day, Arab Strap’s debut album 'The Week Never Starts Round Here' has been remastered.

Recorded on the outskirts of Glasgow at MCM – where label mates Mogwai and The Delgados also recorded their debuts and which would become the first iteration of Chemikal Underground’s sister operation Chem19 – the master tapes have been meticulously refreshed by original recording engineer Paul Savage.

'The Week Never Starts Round Here' contains arguably Arab Strap’s best-known song, ‘The First Big Weekend’, which they wrote during a B-side session after the album was supposedly finished.

“It’s a very personal, almost insular record,” says Moffat, summing up 'The Week Never Starts Round Here'. “It has a very distinct character and is unique, which is rare.”

“It’s a funny wee thing,” adds Middleton. “I’ll always love it because it’s our first, but also because it’s naive and cheeky. ‘Real’ musicians probably hate it, but its strength is its lack of technicality.”