Art Brut doet het weer met een knal

Naar goede gewoonte keert Art Brut weer met het nodige kabaal terug op het voorplan.

‘Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out!’ is de titel van hun nieuwe plaat die op 23 november via Alcopop! Records verschijnt. Producer was folkmuzikant Jim Moray en de line-up omvat deze keer de originele leden Eddie Argos, Ian Catskilkin en Freddy Feedback naast Toby Macfarlaine op gitaar en Charlie Clayton op drums.

De eerste single uit de plaat kan je hieronder beluisteren. Daarin heeft frontman Argos het over een hospitaalopname enkele jaren geleden, die iets anders uitdraaide dan verwacht: "It was the most undignified month of my life and although I was very grateful to the surgeons for saving my life and also to the nurses for taking care of me, I despised every fucking minute of time I spent there," he said in a statement. "The only thing that kept me sane was the mantra that eventually became this song. Every single lyric was written and repeated over and over again as I suffered numerous indignities. Songwriting is something I've always used to alleviate stress and on this occasion I really tested it to its limits. What I am most impressed by is that even when I'm at death's door and pumped full of morphine, staggering around and collapsing all the time, I can still write a comical call-and-response backing vocal to amuse myself."