Four Cigarettes
Formerly of Arab Strap, Scottish songwriter Malcolm Middleton sings with all the integrity and smoky purity of someone who has spent way too much time puffing away in the back corner of a sketchy Dundee pub. Four Cigarettes is a devastating track – sparse in the verses, lush in the choruses, and majestically organic in the delivery. I discovered it quite by accident on a wet New York morning whilst working away at a Soho cafe. It kinda shimmied into my headphones, the crackling wickedness of Middleton’s Scottish lilt ripping me straight out of my cappuccino induced haze. ‘Oh man!’, I thought to myself. ‘This is the greatest song most people will never know about’. Until now. Well, for a few of us anyway.
Listen to Malcolm Middleton’s track, Four Cigarettes.
Tagged: acoustic music, Scotland, Scottish bands, Scottish songwriters
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Agneta said | 17 September, 2009
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Jamie A said | 2 May, 2008
this is a really great song, thank you for sharing. it gave me goosebumps.