Arab Strap and Twilight Sad supergroup Gentle Sinners on their debut album

nme.com:

Arab Strap and James Graham of The Twilight Sad have announced a new album together under the name Gentle Sinners, plus a punchy new single ‘Face To Fire (After Nyman)’.

Check it out below along with our interview with the duo.The pair’s new album, ‘These Actions Cannot Be Undone’, will be released on May 13 via Rock Action, with a vinyl release to follow in September.

It will also contain the single ‘Killing This Time’, which appeared in November and was credited to Graham and “someone else” (now revealed as Moffat).The pair first discussed collaborating in February 2021 when they went for a walk around Glasgow during the third coronavirus lockdown, during which Graham expressed his desire to leave his creative comfort zone.“I love being in The Twilight Sad, I’ll write with Andy [MacFarlane, Twilight Sad guitarist] for the rest of my life, but I wanted to see what else I could do, and push it as far as I possibly could,” Graham told NME. “Then Aidan said: ‘Aye, I’ve got some stuff!'”Moffatt had recently finished work on Arab Strap’s most recent acclaimed album ‘As Days Get Dark’. “After a big album with a lot of words in it, I get sick of my own voice,” Moffat told NME, “so I tend to retreat a little bit and do instrumental stuff.

It was pure serendipity that James was looking to do something that way.”He began sending music to Graham for him to add vocals, with a focus on pushing boundaries. “We had an unspoken rule, that if we hadn’t done something before we should definitely try it, which is why James is trying all manner of vocal gymnastics,” said Moffat.New single ‘Face To Fire (After Nyman)’ is based around a thumping dance beat. “It’s reflecting that we both tend to listen to pop music more than people would.