List Price: £12.99 (GBP)
- Lowest New Price: £8.24
- Lowest Used Price: £12.41
- Lowest Collectible Price: £15.00
- Total New: 7
- Total Used: 5
- Total Collectible: 1
- Total Refurbished: 0
- Artist : Art Brut
- Binding : Audio CD
- EAN : 0878037000429
- Label : Downtown
- Manufacturer : Downtown
- Number Of Discs : 1
- Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
- Package Quantity : 1
- Product Group : Music
- Publisher : Downtown
- Release Date : 2006-05-09
- SKU : 878037000429BAKME
- Studio : Downtown
- UPC : 878037000429
Many bands have promised to bring intelligence back into rock’n’roll, but few offer it quite so readily as on the debut album by Art Brut – even if it’s a little too frequently brains of the somewhat smart-arsed variety. This is down to Art Brut band-leader Eddie Argos, a loud-mouthed student type in vintage blazer, whose half-sung, half-bellowed vocal – rambling, witticism-strewn missives about beautiful girls, modern art, and Top Of The Pops – surfs unsteadily atop a musical backdrop of cranked-up garage-rock clatter, distorted rockabilly, and good honest first-wave punk-rock. It’s an acquired taste, sure – not everyone will want to shriek along to Argos’ somewhat pretentious proclamation "Popular culture/ No longer applies to me!" on "Bad Weekend". But every now and then, Art Brut’s pseudy side slides into sharp focus and turns out a song like "Formed A Band" – a hilarious indie-rock manifesto that sees Argos declare a wish to be "the boy, the man/ Who writes the song that makes Israel and Palestine get along". And if that doesn’t warm the cockles of your heart, perhaps "Emily Kane" - dedicated to Argos’ childhood sweetheart – will. --Louis Pattison
- Amazon.co.uk Review
Tracks:
Disc 1
- 1: Formed A Band
- 2: My Little Brother
- 3: Emily Kane
- 4: Rusted Guns Of Milan
- 5: Modern Art
- 6: Good Weekend
- 7: Bang Bang Rock & Roll
- 8: Fight!
- 9: Moving To L.A.
- 10: Bad Weekend
- 11: Stand Down
- 12: 18,000 Lira
- 13: These Animas Menswear
- 14: Really Bad Weekend
- 15: Maternity Ward
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