The debut album by Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs will be released on Valentine’s Day 2009. The track-listing is:
Lover’s Song
Big Blonde
Atheist’s Lament
Oh Men!
A Scenic Route To The Isle Of Ewe
That’s Just Love
Ballad Of The Unsent Letter
Now I Know I’m Right
The Last Kiss
Lullaby For Unborn Child
Living With You Now
My Goodbye
The album was recorded in Glasgow with regular Arab Strap / Aidan Moffat engineer Geoff Allan. It will come in 2 formats: regular CD in a gatefold sleeve with poster with enhanced disc including 3 videos, and a limited edition Board Game box set which includes the vinyl album, the full regular CD album, a cover versions 7” single with exclusive tracks I Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher - see below) and Love Is Not A Game (Glen Campbell), the 5 Songs By Aidan Moffat & A Best-Of CD EP featuring special alternate versions of album tracks and one exclusive track (Plastic Mistletoe), a How To Get To Heaven game board with die and pawns and a Valetine card written, designed, signed and numbered by Aidan himself! No definite price details yet, but we reckon it will be somewhere between £20 - £25. It should be available for pre-order soon!
Aidan’s live album, An Evening With Aidan John Moffat, is now available from the webshop. Originally intended as a vinyl-only release, Aidan has instead opted to release it in a digital format only, but with plenty of bonus material which includes: printable CD jewel case artwork so you can build your own album at home, the original poster for the show in PDF format, a previously unreleased studio recording called “You’ve Never Known Love”, a high quality Quicktime version of the promotional I Can Hear Your Heart film and a letter with sleeve notes too! The album itself comes as two very high quality (320 kbps) mp3s - Main Set and Encore - and includes alternate versions of the tracks from I Can Hear Your Heart and a few previously unreleased and improvised numbers as well - 20 tracks in total! And all this will cost you a mere £4.99! It’s available EXCLUSIVELY from the new Aidan Moffat / Chemikal Underground webshop which you’ll find here (it’s in the “More Music” section):
http://shop.chemikal.co.uk/acatalog/AJM.html
The Aloha Hawaii single - Aidan’s collaboration with Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai - now has a definite release date of September 8th. You can preview the tracks and read the press release at the Chemikal Underground site here:
http://www.chemikal.co.uk/aloha-hawaii.htm#
You can also pre-order the limited edition 10” vinyl single on the Chemikal Underground shop. They’re also doing an exclusive deal which includes a snazzy Aloha Hawaii t-shirt! Economic downturn be damned! Spend your precious cash here:
http://shop.chemikal.co.uk/acatalog/Towns_On_The_Moon.html#aCHEM108
Aidan is now offering sex advice on the Quietus website! The column is accurately named “I’m No Expert” and can be found here:
Oh dear.
UPDATE - Apparently there’s been quite a response to this column and it looks like it will now become a regular monthly feature! You can read the second installment here:
http://www.thequietus.com/articles/uncle-agony-aidan-moffat-s-back-to-fix-your-weeping-sores
Aidan has yet another new project on the go - an often discussed but rarely realised collaborative partnership with Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai! Their plan is to release a sporadic series of vinyl-only 7” singles over the course of the next year or two, hopefully culminating in a full album sometime in the future. There will be no digital format of these songs available anywhere, absolutely 100% old-fashioned record ONLY. The first single, Towns On The Moon b/w I‘ve Been Bad For Years And Years, will be available from Chemikal Underground at the end of July!