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London-based quintet Art Brut, led by singer-songwriter Eddie Argos,
revisited vintage garage-rock of the 1960s and punk-rock of the 1970s on
Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Fierce Panda, 2005),
relying on primal guitar riffs and eclectic vocals.
The band was clever enough to pen songs such as
Formed A Band (the driving litany that made them famous in 2004),
Modern Art (a relentless series of screams over agonizing guitar),
Fight (furious like the Sex Pistols),
that sounded fresh and new when they were in fact based on very familiar
paradigms.
Sometimes the rhythm and the vocals appropriated anticlimatic stances
(My Little Brother, a tragic form of music-hall;
Moving to L.A., a comic form of Merseybeat;
Good Weekend, a nasty sarcastic form of bubblegum),
a fact that may lend them more than five minutes of fame.
Their songs are odes to stupidity, but, in the warped universe of Brit-pop,
sometimes stupidity sounds like genius.
It's A Bit Complicated (Banana, 2007) contained mostly inferior
material that aped their own debut, with rare moments of verve
(Direct Hit).
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Arranger)
Gli Art Brut, quintetto con base a Londra, capitanato dal cantante e cantautore Eddie Argos, ha rivisitato il rock d'annata 60 e il punk-rock in Bang Bang Rock&Roll(Fierce Panda, 2005) affidandosi a basilari quanto emozionali riff di chitarra e parti vocali artistoidi. Canzoni come Formed a Band(la canzone che li ha resi famosi nel 2004), Emily Kane, Modern Art, Bad Weekend suonano di freschezza e novit… pur essendo basate su paradigmi molto ben conosciuti
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