"Direct Hit"

Catherine says "Art Brut is an acquired taste." I think I liked them from the get-go, but I'm kind of weird like that. One way or another, I'm digging the new album. Here's the video for "Direct Hit"

I say it's funny. Also note that they do a great live show.

Comments

i don't understand: why do you kids still listen to CDs?

Posted by howard | July 3, 2007 12:50 PM

MODnaahh, MAKES me, want to rock OUT!!!

Good to hear about the new one. Perhaps I will buy it.

Posted by mk | July 3, 2007 1:30 PM

Despite the work of a few dedicated evangelists, I still find Art Brut unbearably smug. It can be fun to feel in on a joke, but that shouldn't be the only thing a band has going for it.

Posted by aeroman | July 3, 2007 1:37 PM

Nope. Clearly drearily, drearily, drearily dull to listen to.

More melody, less chatting.

Posted by alex | July 3, 2007 2:09 PM

There seems to be a greater acceptance among the younger generation these days that disposable music can and should be appreciated while it's around precisely because it IS predictably short-lived.

Posted by benny | July 3, 2007 2:11 PM

Awful. Couldn't bear to watch more than 30 seconds of that. Something about the performance of the lead 'singer' in the video ratchets up the cringe factor too.

Posted by danm | July 3, 2007 2:12 PM

Eh, I can take them or leave them. For some reason hearing that song has left me with a better song stuck in my head.

Posted by SDM | July 3, 2007 2:29 PM

Well, I can't for the life of me see *any* concordance between Direct Hit and Drama -- kinda like Bush's commutation of Libby reminding you of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address -- but hey, thanks for the link to that amazing clip of a great song on an unbelievable tour (I believe it was Janet Weiss's first with the band).

Posted by Marty Lederman | July 3, 2007 3:01 PM

What exactly do you like about them?

Posted by blah | July 3, 2007 3:12 PM

Nobody can exactly say why they like something.

Posted by joeo | July 3, 2007 5:11 PM

Matt, have you heard the new Spoon album? It's brilliant.

Posted by Bob | July 3, 2007 5:39 PM

passable.

Posted by BroD | July 4, 2007 6:13 AM

I already kinda liked their music, but I have to say that it's appropriate that a group that is so strongly an homage to late 70's post-punk should have a video that's an homage to a late 70's BBC costume drama.

Posted by JO'N | July 4, 2007 9:49 AM