When someone is so excited about forming a band that they write a song about the exuberance of that experience, it’s easy to see them putting on a great live show. Because let’s face it, anyone who proclaims, “Look at us! We formed a band!” is clearly the sort of pop culture loving being that would flaunt how happy they are to be in a band for as long as humanly possible. It also suggests that the person writing such a song is not necessarily someone who by conventional standards appears to be a person in a band.

Enter Eddie Argos of angular British act Art Brut. He’d seem a good character for a nerdy schlubby protagonist in a Judd Apatow movie. In addition to not looking at all like a rock star (and not actually being able to sing), his songs speak to things like the virtues of public transportation, DC Comics and bad hangovers. That’s over and above the songs about his misadventures with women, which proclaim, at best, “I saw her naked TWICE!” and at worst…well, let’s just say that breakout hit “Emily Kane” is a borderline stalker anthem meant to find a pubescent girlfriend ten years gone.