Arab Strap announce their eighth studio album, I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore

The new single, "Bliss", addresses the horrors of online hate, as vocalist Aidan Moffat says “It’s about women being terrorised online; it’s about cowardice and bigotry. It’s about how we expose ourselves on social platforms while hiding alone at home. But you can dance to it too!”

The track comes accompanied by a video directed by award-winning, Glasgow based director Ains featuring a striking dancer personifying a character trapped in a dystopian realm. The band have also announced a series of live shows following the album release with shows in Carlisle, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow and Leeds.

Written and performed exclusively by Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat, and finessed with longtime collaborator Paul Savage, the title of the album, I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore, is a text from the band’s live drummer that Moffat thought was funny, and is an album that stands to clearly define a new creative period for Arab Strap.

With the band having recently wrapped up a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 1998 album Philophobia, this new album feels charged by a desire to move forward and explore new terrain. “The tour’s been fun, but I’ll be glad it’s over so we can move on,” laughs Middleton, while Moffat echoes him. “The Philophobia gigs have been a way of saying goodbye to the old us,” he says. “It was a very gentle, quiet tour, so I expect this year we'll just be playing banger after banger – I think we've earned the right to make some noise now.”