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| Los Angeles Times |
 This is the grand character created by Art Brut's singer Eddie Argos, who shapes him as a Dickensian deadbeat with a bratty street inflection. He could be related to the chap we remember lazing on a sunny afternoon, and in fact there is a lot of Ray Davies in Argos' satirical scenarios and a lot of Kinks in Art Brut's hooky rock....full text |
| Entertainment Weekly |
| It's a Bit Complicated, the title of Art Brut's second CD, is presumably a joke, given their penchant for uncomplex lyrics. Case in point: 2005's ''Formed a Band,'' during which frontman Eddie Argos repeatedly proclaims, ''We formed a band!'' At no point on Complicated does Argos get that obvious, though matters remain direct, if droll, throughout. Meanwhile, on the likes of ''Pump Up the Volume,'' the Brit quintet keep the joke from wearing thin by making their idiosyncratic yet entertaining guitar-based pop seem like simplicity itself....full text |
| RollingStone |
| On their '05 debut, these exuberant English people got big mileage out of a simple approach: lean and crude riff rock overlaid with Eddie Argos' half-spoken spiels about topics such as his little brother discovering rock & roll ("There's a noise in his head and he's out of control") and his own yearning to move to L.A. and drink Hennessy with Morrissey. No big changes for album two. It would be nice if Argos offered more details that really stuck, but it's fun to hear him pick through the ashtray of his brain and offer himself as the punch line – as on "Jealous Guy," where he tries to "accidentally" wake his sleeping girl in order to get laid....full text |
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