Playlouder - Music is the Network

And there you were, thinking that Aidan Moffat was content with making atmospheric ambient-tinged instrumental music under his L Pierre moniker since the sad, but perfectly timed, demise of Arab Strap last year. More fool thee. For according to the good people of Chemikal Underground, Moffat will be back in the new year with his darkest, most disturbing, most rancidly horny work yet, and with his middle name, oddly enough.

Aidan John Moffat's 'I Can Hear Your Heart' will be released early in 2008, and the label enthuse that it is "the most provocative album Chemikal Underground (and quite possibly anyone else) has ever released... on this project the envelope has not been so much pushed as incinerated... as sexually explicit and eye-poppingly honest as anything you're ever likely to have heard."

According to Moffat's blurb, the album is "a semi-autobiographical tale based on events from the author's youth" and "a message for the unfaithful from the foul mouth of a shallow young man: a substance-fuelled tale of deception and confusion via clandestine trysts, sex shows, broken hearts and feathered friends." All at the same time? If you go here you can download 'The Boy That You Love' from the album, and it sounds bloody great if you ask me.