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...driving down the road, minding your own business, when it suddenly occurs to you that you've forgotten to buckle your seat belt. And then, just as you reach down to fasten the strap, you see flashing red and blue lights in your rearview mirror...
...around town. Now he can look slightly less conspicuous standing on Piccadilly trying to find Regent Street. Hermès cleverly found a way to hide a compass beneath the watch's stainless steel face. It's the second recent hit for Hermès, which has been making straps since the 1920s. In 1999 a double wrap strap became a fetish for fashion editors. A new version will debut this fall...
...Arab Strap's sound is a mix of programming and instrumentation, and the result has often been spare beats and a repeated chord that crescendos in silence, or sudden musical murk. This format is not at all abandoned on The Red Thread, but it is supplemented with strings and piano. In "Haunt Me," Arab Strap has perhaps their most crowd-pleasing song to date, a melodic work built around a few spare lyrics: "So haunt me / Cause I know / You'll keep me / In to," a double rhyme with gory details...
While these subtle shifts in style--bitterness traded for objectivity, a new commitment to songfulness--differentiate this album from previous ones. The Red Thread is basically another Arab Strap album. Arab Strap consistently produces sad, relaxing music. It is spare and, despite its obsession with post-coital anxiety, satisfying and wise. The band takes up common themes that usually inspire loud, angry rock and treats them delicately, like craftsman, with mature, objective description. Arab Strap has dignified the "songs about fucking" genre...
...Arab Strap...