| Los Angeles Times |
Art Brut's strength is poking funListening to the second album (due June 19) from these London cutups is like spending a draining day with a most eccentric friend. This fellow is needy and exasperating, witty and intense, paranoid and charming....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....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....full text |
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Art Brut's strength is poking fun