"Stop buying your albums from the supermarket!"

Oh bugger. My favourite record shop in town (and the only place which sold really good music on CD round here) has closed. I'm really quite gutted so I've abandoned the band I was going to blog about (next time, Florian, next time) to put up a couple of songs by Art Brut, whose album I stumbled across in Criminal Records, which is sadly no more.


Art Brut - Formed A Band mp3 (available for 7 days)

Everything about Art Brut and their guitar-heavy, shouty singing brilliance gives me a smile. Formed A Band - released as a single in 2004 - is one of only two ever-present songs on my mp3 player, and the line, "We're just talking...to the kids", makes me chuckle every time I hear it!

Good Weekend was released as a single in 2005 and here it is being performed in a live session on BBC 6Music. "I've seen her naked. TWICE!"

Art Brut - Good Weekend (live on 6music) mp3 (available for 7 days)

Buy Art Brut's debut album, It's A Bit Complicated from Mutebank.co.uk.

And find out more about the band at their website and myspace page.

I'm off to sulk.