http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5173&variant=artist-playlists&rws=%2Farab-strap%2Fplaylists.rssLike Leonard Cohen, Arab Strap deserve credit for creating songs that don't merely sound unadorned; somehow, they sound nude. Their simplicity heightens both their emotional directness and eroticism so that in the end we understand this isn't just another man baring his soul -- this is a man baring all. Nearly every song is told from the point of view of a lover speaking to his beloved. The absence of any third party is so total that some may find these songs too smothering, too disgustingly self-contained. Tiny details of the outside world do filter in, but time and place for the most part remain intangible. Fittingly, the songs are usually structured around a simple loop dovetailing into a bare minimum of instrumentation. It's as if everything in this music exists to rescue from time a single moment and suspend it in the precious amber of memory and song, where it may be lived and re-lived endlessly. - Chad DriscollIndie/Alternativeen720Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:29:36 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5173&variant=artist-playlists&rws=%2Farab-strap%2Fplaylists.rss Like Leonard Cohen, Arab Strap deserve credit for creating songs that don't merely sound unadorned; somehow, they sound nude. Their simplicity heightens both their emotional directness and eroticism so that in the end we understand this isn't just another man baring his soul -- this is a man baring all. Nearly every song is told from the point of view of a lover speaking to his beloved. The absence of any third party is so total that some may find these songs too smothering, too disgustingly self-contained. Tiny details of the outside world do filter in, but time and place for the most part remain intangible. Fittingly, the songs are usually structured around a simple loop dovetailing into a bare minimum of instrumentation. 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