Winners team up on album
BEFORE he won the Scottish Album of the Year, RM Hubbert was a promoter and reckons he put on Arab Strap’s first Glasgow show in the 90s.
Now, he and the Strap’s Aidan Moffat have collaborated on an album, Here Lies the Body.
It follows on from their first collaboration, Car Song, released in 2012 on Hubbert’s Thirteen Lost & Found album, which went on to win the Scottish Album of the Year Award – a year after Moffat won the same award for his work with Bill Wells.
The inspiration for the album came from a story Moffat read about mothers who abandon their families “and how that still remains a taboo subject”.
He added: “When marriages break down, it’s almost always the man who leaves.”
The album begins with the chance encounter of two old flames as they enjoy hen and stag parties in Blackpool. We then follow the story as it moves forwards, and backwards.
The music includes indie, folk, jazz, electronica and the spoken word.
Moffat said: “The guitar and voice are the heart of the record but I don’t think about genre. I try to use the sounds I think best illustrate the idea and feeling of the song.
“We can access almost all music ever recorded for free and you can make an album on your phone, so there’s an unlimited palette these days. Modern ears are more accepting of different genres than ever before.” ● Here Lies the Body is released next Friday. The pair will play St Luke’s, Glasgow, on May 17.
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