
Blog: Archives: 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 About/Contact	Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot! Scott Jones on Art Brut's Brilliant! Tragic! Indie/Punk superhero Eddie Argos is back in action with his old gang Art Brut and there’s something different about him. He looks the same, and acts the same, and his heart is still visible through his black blazer front pocket, but it seems he’s returned to us with new powers… A vintage Art Brut Pop nugget 'Clever Clever Jazz' opens proceedings, Argos shouts the chorus “clever clever jazz man! Sorry that it doesn’t sound like it’s planned!” over flying spiky guitars and Punk is reborn! It bounces along with classic Art Brut styling and then before you know it Argos is showcasing one of his new powers, he’s singing! ‘Lost Weekend’ bounces along with Argos bringing to life the fumbling and lust of an alcohol-fuelled weekend, of which I’m sure he’s had more than his fair share, where he loses his friends and confesses his love for a girl he just saw in the queue for a cash point, before he goes on to dish out a fine selection of insults over Half Man Half Biscuit like guitars in ‘Bad Comedian’, in which his ex-girlfriend has a new friend on the internet: “your walking around like loves young dream, he dresses like he came free with the NME! How can you bear to hold his hand? I bet he spells his name in comic sans!” ‘Martin Kemp Welch Five-A-Side Football Rules’ and ‘Axel Rose’ roar from the speakers with all the angst of a tank top wearing teenage Goth who’s just been told by his headmistress that he cant wear his new studded leather jacket to school, epic choruses that will start a moshpit in a phone box, that along with ‘Clever Clever Jazz’ will contest the grand back catalogue of Art Brut nuggets to be played at indie discos. ‘Ice Hockey’, Argos’s funeral song, sees the hero heroically departing this world and moving onto another in comic book style with Argos's voice echoing out “My time on earth was a lot of fun but the adventure has only just started” over more spiky guitars and then ‘Sealand’ brings a Bonnie and Clyde tinted ending to ‘Brilliant! Tragic!’ Along with the numerous pop nuggets, big choruses, and flying punk guitars Art Brut also boast the finest band merchandise you’re likely to get your hands on (unless you’ve got some Joy Division oven gloves); football kits, canvas drawings, Karaoke with Eddie Argos himself, and there’s even a comic book to accompany the album. So if you have any good ideas for band merchandise don’t tell Eddie Argos, he’ll sell fucking loads of them! Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot! © 2011 Scott Jones
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Indie/Punk superhero Eddie Argos is back in action with his old gang Art Brut and there’s something different about him. He looks the same, and acts the same, and his heart is still visible through his black blazer front pocket, but it seems he’s returned to us with new powers…

A vintage Art Brut Pop nugget 'Clever Clever Jazz' opens proceedings, Argos shouts the chorus “clever clever jazz man! Sorry that it doesn’t sound like it’s planned!” over flying spiky guitars and Punk is reborn! It bounces along with classic Art Brut styling and then before you know it Argos is showcasing one of his new powers, he’s singing!

‘Lost Weekend’ bounces along with Argos bringing to life the fumbling and lust of an alcohol-fuelled weekend, of which I’m sure he’s had more than his fair share, where he loses his friends and confesses his love for a girl he just saw in the queue for a cash point, before he goes on to dish out a fine selection of insults over Half Man Half Biscuit like guitars in ‘Bad Comedian’, in which his ex-girlfriend has a new friend on the internet: “your walking around like loves young dream, he dresses like he came free with the NME! How can you bear to hold his hand? I bet he spells his name in comic sans!”

‘Martin Kemp Welch Five-A-Side Football Rules’ and ‘Axel Rose’ roar from the speakers with all the angst of a tank top wearing teenage Goth who’s just been told by his headmistress that he cant wear his new studded leather jacket to school, epic choruses that will start a moshpit in a phone box, that along with ‘Clever Clever Jazz’ will contest the grand back catalogue of Art Brut nuggets to be played at indie discos.

‘Ice Hockey’, Argos’s funeral song, sees the hero heroically departing this world and moving onto another in comic book style with Argos's voice echoing out “My time on earth was a lot of fun but the adventure has only just started” over more spiky guitars and then ‘Sealand’ brings a Bonnie and Clyde tinted ending to ‘Brilliant! Tragic!’

Along with the numerous pop nuggets, big choruses, and flying punk guitars Art Brut also boast the finest band merchandise you’re likely to get your hands on (unless you’ve got some Joy Division oven gloves); football kits, canvas drawings, Karaoke with Eddie Argos himself, and there’s even a comic book to accompany the album. So if you have any good ideas for band merchandise don’t tell Eddie Argos, he’ll sell fucking loads of them! Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot!