Arab Strap Over; To Inspire 'There Is An Ending After All', 'Last Romance' Headlines

The website for French music magazine Magic: Revue Pop Moderne reports that sources have confirmed Arab Strap's Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat have mutually decided to split ten years after the release of their first single, "The First Big Weekend".

The duo will still release Ten Years Of Tears, an "audio rockumentary", on Oct. 23 in the UK and France. Arap Strap (while they were still Arab Strap) picked the tracks themselves and said the album contains the "requesite early demos, B-sides, rarities, previously unreleased songs, a couple of "classics" and the occasional surprise."

A 7" single will precede the album and include the 7" edit of "There Is No Ending" and a Four Tet remix of "The First Big Weekend".

Ten Years Of Tears Track Listing:

Preface: Set The Scene
Islands (original demo from 1995)
The First Big Weekend
Gilded (Live, from their first gig)
I Saw You (from their first John Peel Session)
The Clearing (Single Version)
Packs Of Three (acoustic, live in the studio 2006)
(Afternoon) Soaps
Rocket, Take Your Turn (from the Fukd ID 12")
To All A Good Night
Turbulence (Bis Remix Radio Edit)
The Shy Retirer
Blood (Live 2004)
If There's No Hope For Us (Rogue Version)
Where We've Left Our Love
The Girl I Loved Before I Fucked (full band version)
Oxytocin (our first ever recording!)
There Is No Ending (7" Edit)

(If There's) No Hope For Us (available on The Last Romance)