Have we finally reached the song that might actually let me down, as alluded to the last time I covered them on here?  Lost Weekend may actually be my least favourite thing that they have put out, but is it particularly terrible?  Not in the slightest.  In fact, the past week has seen it grow on me a hell of a lot, so I’ll probably be singing the praises of it in a month.

It’s just so jarring from everything the band has put out previously that it’s difficult to know exactly how to take it.  Art Brut as a band pretty much lives and dies on Eddie Argos.  He is the centre of everything, and his vocals are what makes the band what it is.  So a song that replaces his regular vocals with a subdued, almost whispered version is a bit of a shock.  The more I listen to it, the more I start to appreciate the gentleness of lines like “I’m sorry if I embarrassed you by saying something stupid like ‘I love you’”, so I should probably be commending the band for at least trying to do something a bit different four albums in.

Lost Weekend will be released as a single on May 16.  The album, Brilliant! Tragic! will follow a week later on May 23 via Cooking VInyl.

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