Arab Strap occupy the dark and broken heart of Cool Britannia; their second album, Philophobia, is the bleakest piece of Scottish pop culture since the dead-baby scene in Trainspotting. Songwriters Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat obsess over the details of their romantic chaos and drunken stupors, setting their disillusionment to beautiful, uncluttered arrangements of guitar, organ and strings....