Everybody Was in the French Resistance… Now! corrects the mistakes of pop music.
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Revisionist History
Everybody Was in the French Resistance… Now! Corrects the Mistakes of Pop Music
Art Brut
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True Stories?
Art Brut Insist They’re Not Being Ironic
No joke. Art Brut is serious. Sort of.
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Look at Us!
Art Brut and the Death of the Death of Irony
THERE’S BEEN PLENTY of talk about the “death of irony” in recent years: We’re not supposed to make fun of anything anymore, or the terrorists will win. But pop music hasn’t even cared about irony one way or the other for years—heart-on-sleeve sincerity is as much a put-on in rock as an affected, snotty attitude. […]
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Art Brut Takes the Fall to the Bank
Though I think it may be a little off the mark, I can’t quite help but think that the best way to approach Art Brut—one of London’s most promising pop exports in some time—is with something of a back-handed comparison: Art Brut are something like a low-rent the Fall. Which isn’t to say that Art […]