“Listen to Me: Ignore Your Parents” (Art Brut, Mercury Lounge, 6/1/09)

I have missed these guys.  I've missed the enthusiastic apologetic enthusiasm, I've missed the Jasper Future faces, I've missed pogoing around about a shade of Blue. When I last saw Art Brut ( myspace , blog ), Top of the Pops still existed.  It was easy to take them for granted a few years ago, when they were very consciously rotating through every venue in the city.  I saw them at least four times when they were supporting their first record, and while Eddie Argos' routine was never