Description:	CDs on Cooking Vinyl
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	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Cooking Vinyl
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...according to our Brian on 03 April 2009.

Oh, someone has to plumb the depths and the champs of uselessness this week are the buzzy cockney indie yawnfest that is Art Brut. Now, when they unleashed the brilliant 'Formed A Band' we were quite taken with their lightly cynical brand of novelty guitar pop but now they've hit a creative brick wall and are actually emulating tedious Fierce Panda signed no-marks who would have been third on the bill 10 years ago at the Camden Falcon. There's a spiky melodic tinge to new single 'Alcoholics Unanimous' but it's all flattened by the banal, deadpan chanty lyrics that scream "lowest common denominator", gutter poetry for folks in the terraces to nod along to. I know they're probably being "archly ironic" but I really can't see the enduring appeal. If this band were from the Leeds underground they'd be laughed out of town for being such idiots. As they're from sunny "anything goes - whoop look at us we're in a fucking band" London, they get on the cover of all the music rags. The perfect musical foil for Boris Johnson's swinging metropolis.

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What their label says...

Art Brut has announced it will be releasing its third studio album, Art Brut vs Satan on Monday 20th April.
“We recorded the album in a punk-as-fuck two weeks in Salem, Oregon,” explains lead singer Eddie Argos.  “I don't always enjoy the recording process all that fiddling with guitars and drum sounds waiting for my turn to ‘sing’.  This time though, we did it just right. We spent a day getting the sound of the instruments perfect, then with all of us in the same room at the same time, with the amazing Black Francis conducting us, we pressed record, jumped around and played our songs. This is how I always thought albums were made and it’s definitely how we're doing it from now on!”

"Produced by Frank Black over twelve days last December, new album Art Brut vs. Satan is the record Brut-o-philes have been waiting for since debut single ‘Formed A Band’ illuminated the musical universe back in 2004… tuneful, truculent and more on the button than University Challenge’s Gail Trimble, it’s the sound of Art Brut at their most confident and confrontational."

CDS
1.    Alcoholics Unanimous
2.    Just Desserts
7” (Ltd edition of 600)
A.    Alcoholics Unanimous
B.    Positively 5th St