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Essentially seeming to boil down to "They're GREAT!" vs. "They're SHIT!"

I'd say the album's a solid B, but my word do they ever sound like Ikara Colt. Ill-advised slow numbers aside. (This has just reminded me how much I love 'Sink Venice')

Some touches of lyrical brilliance, roughly one guitar noise, 'Emily Kane' somehow wasn't a hit (it got to... #41), just generally a pretty nice, lovable album, though 'Fight' is rubbish.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 21 May 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Haven't heard anything but 'Emily Kane' but that's one of my fave singles this year. What else would I search for off the album?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 May 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Try My Little Brother and Modern Art for starters. I've cooled on Formed A Band a bit.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 21 May 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I'd give it a solid A, rather than a B. Perhaps I'm a big softy.

It's got a pretty secure spot in my top 10 (for now, at least).

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 22 May 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Yep, it's sexcellent. There's pretty much the bets of this new crop of British bands.. besides maybe Bloc Party which have grown on me so much that I bought their album 3 days ago >_

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 22 May 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

having been initially sceptical, i was a little bit surprised to find myself absolutely loving it. the very idea of Art Brut - their terrible name and utterly contrived sound especially - should be enough to chill me to the bones, but they've got tunes to spare and it's all coated in a generous layer of fun, which is quite nice for a change. the only song i don't really really like is 'Fight', which is dreadful.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

This album is about to be 10 years old. They burned so bright before flaming out so quickly. Eddie gave all he could give, I guess.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:32 (eleven years ago)

I wonder how they'd be regarded now if they'd called it a day after the first album.

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:37 (eleven years ago)

Even though I've listened to every album since at least one time, I still basically regard them as a band with one album.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:39 (eleven years ago)

but what an album ..

― mark e, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:44 (eleven years ago)

I'VE SEEN HER NAKED TWICE!

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:44 (eleven years ago)

haha

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:45 (eleven years ago)

I'm kinda embarrassed to say that until you restarted this thread I forgot this band even existed

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:45 (eleven years ago)

i saw them in 2005 (as mentioned elsewhere), and they were brilliant fun.

very unexpected laughs during a miserable glastonbury experience.

and then getting drunk with eddie with various others afterwards (r.i.p playlouder) ..

the man is good company.

― mark e, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:46 (eleven years ago)

I saw them once in 2006, between the first album and the second, and they were absolutely blisteringly fun. The girl I was dating at the time didn't think as highly of them.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:48 (eleven years ago)

eleven years pass...

Speak of the devil, I put this on the other day (and mentioned it in a post) then wondered what was going on with the band - turns out they’re touring the U.S. for the first time in 15 years and they’re in NYC TODAY (and the next two days)!

― birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 April 2026 18:57 (two weeks ago)

Seeing them next week and I'm very excited about it.

― kitchen person, Tuesday, 7 April 2026 20:35 (two weeks ago)

IN DC Friday night

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2026 22:09 (two weeks ago)

An opening set from a couple of months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lV5GOolDaY

― birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 April 2026 22:26 (two weeks ago)

"I'm accidentally being political...whilst applying for an American visa. This is a mistake! Scratch all of that...Art Brut are definitely not international revolutionary communists...I promise!"

― birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 April 2026 22:29 (two weeks ago)

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