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Art Brut
London art-punk band ArtBrut—named after the French term for outsider art made mostly by insane asylum residents—write clever, energetic guitar-rock songs as funny and self-aware as their name implies. Singer Eddie Argos, who sometimes sports a fantastic John Waters-ish mustache, pines for clumsy teenage kissing and hand-holding in “Emily Kane” (“if memory serves, we’re still on a break”), and has delusions of grandeur in “Formed A Band,” (“look at us! We formed a band!) singing confidently about writing a song “as universal as ‘happy birthday.’”
Published September 2006.