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Art Brut “Hooray!”

It’s been quite a while since we heard from our old pal Eddie Argos! “Hooray!,” the opening track from Art Brut’s first record in over seven years, reacquaints us with the Argos shtick – imagine a much friendlier Mark E Smith crossed with a version of Jarvis Cocker without all the sexual charisma. A lovelorn weirdo who shouts clever stuff over uptempo rock, a party band led by the most neurotic guy in the room. Art Brut is the kind of band who will forever be in the shadow of their brilliant debut, mainly because it’s hard to recapture the immediacy and magic of songs like “Good Weekend” and “Modern Art.” But “Hooray!” at least has the right spirit, and leans into deliberate calculation in a way the earlier stuff seemed to lean into inspired improvisation.

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