Arab Strap have shared the first single, “You You You”, off their upcoming album “Half Told Tales” out September 4th via Rock Action.

TRACKLIST:
01 I Get Noise
02 You You You
03 Be a Man
04 Fighting for You
05 Glamour Magick
06 Gape
07 Under Offer
08 Basic Physics
09 Sunsong
10 Dollar Park
11 Mr. Splitfoot
12 Ampersand
13 Fragments
14 Beats per Minute

Arab Strap shared this about the album:  “We’re thirty years old this year. So we decided to celebrate by doing what we enjoy most: by making new music.”

“The excitement comes because me and Aidan like and hate different things. There are things in the record that individually we might not choose but that’s why I like this album so much, because it’s not the one I wanted to make. I don’t think it’s what Aidan wanted to make either, it’s this bit in the middle. It might not be 100% what we want but it’s good for the band, and it works.”

The video for the song was directed by Luke Bovill.

Aidan Moffat shared this about the song: “‘You You You’ is an attempt to remind ourselves, and hopefully others, that the world’s not full of awful people. That there are millions of us out there dealing with the same worries every day: from the rising costs of absolutely everything, our mental and physical health, the constant slaughter and tyranny in our newsfeeds, to playing an unwitting part in the military-industrial complex, and the endless warping of reality. It can often feel like a complete absence of human decency  it’s no wonder that despondency can feel like our default disposition. It was designed as a kind of invocation. To bring forth the stubbornly elusive spirits of hope and solidarity.”