Arab Strap

'It's about hopelessness and darkness', says Aidan Moffat. 'But in a fun way'. The Arab Strap frontman is speaking about the band's seventh studio album and their first since 2005's 'The Last Romance'

Collection includes eight studio albums, one compilation, one live album and one tribute album by indie pop band Belle & Sebastian.

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert, prior collaborators and Scottish Album of the Year Award winners both, have come together on Here Lies the Body to create a saudade story that starts with former lovers briefly crossing paths and ends with an idyllic squat in the forest.

Coming December 11th, Belle and Sebastian present 22 live performances featuring songs from across their 25 year career.

Isobel Campbell is a Scottish singer-songwriter, cellist and composer who rose to prominence in the Scottish indie pop band 'Belle and Sebastian' before releasing 3 albums with Mark Lanegan (Mark Lanegan - ex Queens Of The Stone Age, Screaming Trees). Belle & Sebastian's album "Ballad of the Broken Seas" shortlisted for 2006 Mercury Music Prize and was one of NME's top 100 albums of the decade.Isobel Campbell achieved 9 UK top 40's with the 'Belle & Sebastian', spanning 12 weeks in the top 40.B & S's third LP 'The Boy with the Arab Strap' reached No.12 in the UK charts.An impressive 130k album sales across 3 albums in the UK alone.

Isobel Campbell is a Scottish singer-songwriter, cellist and composer who rose to prominence in the Scottish indie pop band 'Belle and Sebastian' before releasing 3 albums with Mark Lanegan (Mark Lanegan - ex Queens Of The Stone Age, Screaming Trees). Belle & Sebastian's album "Ballad of the Broken Seas" shortlisted for 2006 Mercury Music Prize and was one of NME's top 100 albums of the decade.Isobel Campbell achieved 9 UK top 40's with the 'Belle & Sebastian', spanning 12 weeks in the top 40.B & S's third LP 'The Boy with the Arab Strap' reached No.12 in the UK charts.An impressive 130k album sales across 3 albums in the UK alone.

"Away From My Window" is a concept album, inspired by the source and revivalist singers of Aberdeenshire. Featuring archive clips of singers such as Stanley Robertson and Lizzie Higgins, Iona aims to showcase revivalism in folksong by creating a programme of modern interpretations of old ballads and self-penned songs in a traditional style. Whilst drawing on the work of Scottish songwriters such as Michael Marra and Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap), Iona aims to showcase the universalism of folksong in an inter-genre manner.

Glasgow-based twin-sibling duo Cloth (Rachael and Paul Swinton) release Secret Measure their first full-length release on Rock Action Records (Mogwai, Arab Strap, The Twilight Sad) following the four-song ‘Low Sun EP’ (2022). The album was produced by Ali Chant (Yard Act, Katy J Pearson, Squirrel Flower) at Toybox Studios, Bristol.

'Hey Sammy' is the long awaited ninth solo album by Edale-born singer songwriter Bella Hardy, a record that bears the stamps of extensive musical expeditions far from home.

A Bit of Previous is a classic Belle and Sebastian album preoccupied with songs and melodies that won’t leave your head and lyrics that can make you smile and ponder and sometimes be melancholic. It’s an album self-produced and recorded by Belle and Sebastian (with contributions from Brian McNeil, Matt Wiggins, Kevin Burleigh and Shawn Everett) and their most hands-on since The Boy With The Arab Strap. So what is a A Bit of Previous? It’s a bit of everything, and a lot of what makes Belle and Sebastian so special and enduring. It’s a band tackling the insight, experience and responsibility that come with getting older with humour and irreverence and lyrical exactitude and musical bravado. It’s one of the UK’s most beloved pop portraitists asserting themselves as an infallible source of energy and fun.