Arab Strap - Arab Strap [2CD Set] (2016)

Reflecting on a 20 year career that was as influential as it was controversial, this compilation highlights an extraordinary output that staunchly refused to conform to expectation.

in Aidan’s words: “We chose 20 songs - one for each year since we started - and decided to split them into two lots of 10. The first disc’s a kind of best-of, but we just stuck to the more electronic stuff for this - there’s so many different sounds going on in Arab Strap albums, so we wanted to make it a more coherent whole. “The second disc’s filled with rarities from EPs and b-sides and out-takes and stuff, so there’s some louder rock stuff on there. I think all of these songs could’ve been on the albums they were recorded for, but sometimes you’re trying to tell a story and they just don’t fit.”