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Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton are pivoting from their signature miserabilist folk-rock toward something they’re calling 'disco-metal.' The new single 'You You You' trades their usual sparse intimacy for a driving, abrasive pulse that feels more like a basement club in Berlin than a pub in Falkirk. This shift suggests the duo is less interested in legacy-act nostalgia and more focused on the friction of modern collapse. Watch for how long-time listeners navigate this jagged tonal pivot when the full album, 'Half-Told Tales', arrives.