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Art Brut = Really Trashy Brit Rock = Flip Horrorshow
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Good Weekend
Formed a Band
Emily Kane
Bang Bang Rock and Roll

When Art Brut issued their first single "Formed a Band", you'd have put good odds on these upstarts being merely a brilliant one-off and nothing more. A pinprick in the sides of their more overcooked colleagues, the track came with a wink and a sneer but felt like a complete manifesto rather than mere prologue. Yet on their debut full-length, the band nods to the earliest recordings from the Fall or Television Personalities, bucking the frankly odd notion that smart yet cynical meta-pop is inherently ephemeral.

Coming across like a triangulation of Jarvis Cocker, Jonathan Richman, and Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge (were he in on the joke), singer Eddie Argos wields charisma and one-liners in equal measure, disguising pointed pop-cult criticism as humor and vice versa. In the process, he's grabbed UK indie by the lapels and implored it to wake. the. fuck. up. and stop accepting post-punk hand-me-downs and tabloid fuck-ups as its heroes. With a punk-era clarion call-- go and form a band, do it yourself-- Art Brut scowled at (and even picked fights with) stuffed-shirt revivalists, wrote about sex as something other than groupie-baiting myth-making, and punctured the lie that avant-posturing is an appropriate substitute for just putting your head down and rocking out, and they (and we) had a hell of a good time in the process.

Show Review
When Eddie Argos got the entire crowd to chant "Art Brut! Top of the Pops!" at the end of "Bang Bang Rock & Roll"-- even though this is Chicago, and what the fuck do we know about "Top of the Pops"-- it was a good show. When he ran through the crowd with no shoes on while singing "Emily Kane", it was a great show. But when we found out that the three girls all the way up front shouting along to every song were 14-year-olds who had driven with their mother all the way from Michigan just to see Art Brut, it was a fucking amazing show.

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Re: Art Brut = Really Trashy Brit Rock = Flip Horrorshow [Re: Noetical]
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Art Brut, there old man.

They were a lot of fun though, better than all theese serious raidohead wanneabes!

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Re: Art Brut = Really Trashy Brit Rock = Flip Horrorshow [Re: Noetical]
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Art Brut puts on such a damn good show.


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