Art Brut Unveils Massive Boxing Set: “Apologies for the Unexpected Look! The Battle of Satan, 2009–2020”

Latest CD Box Set from Art Brut

Art Brut has unveiled his latest CD Box set titled “SET SET, sorry that it doesn’t look like how it is planned! Fighting with Satan, 2009 – 2020.

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Now here VIA Edsel Records, the new Indie Veteran release celebrates the second and final boxing set in a compilation series featuring two parts, following the 2024 A-Collection, which was also mixed-up.

Collection Details

This box showcases five compact discs recorded between 2009 and 2020, featuring home demos, rarities, and B-sides. Eddie Argos, the frontman, expressed that the box contains “many treasures that we have accumulated over the years.” He further remarked: “This is a box of fantastic music, complete with a long essay about it, and you would be foolish not to grab a copy right away.”

Compiling in direct collaboration with the band, the set features several key releases: “Art Brut vs Satan” (2009), “Art Brut vs Satan Brutlegs and B Parties,” “Brilliant! Tragic!” (2011), “Wham! Flap! Question! Let’s swing!” (2018), along with the bonus disc “Brutlegs, rare live cuts, and B-sides.”

According to the press release, the collection of five CDs is housed in a Deluxe 7 package, accompanied by a 24-page illustrated zine featuring a bookmark by Argos, archival photographs, and an original print signed by Art Brut.

Check the tracklist story below.

Tracklist Overview

Sorry that this does not look like how it is planned! Tracklist with the fight against Satan, 2009–2020.

The first disk: Art Brutus against Satan

1) “Alcoholics Unanimous”
2) “Comics DC and Chocolate Milk Cocktail”
3) “Passenger”
4) “I’m Normal”
5) “What a Rush”
6) “Demons!”
7) “Clothing a Line Without Money”
8) “Replacement”
9) ‘Twist & Shout’
10) “Summer Work”
11) “Mysterious Bruises”

The second disk: Art Brutus against Satan Brutlegs and B.

1) “Just Deserts”
2) “Positive 5th Street”
3) “Moved to Los Angeles”
4) “Strange Science”
5) “Catch” (Cure Cover)
6) “The Price You Pay for the Expectation”
7) ‘Art Brut 0 Satan 1’ (early demo of Demons!)
8) “Art Brutus against Satan” (another early demo of Demons!)
9) “Science Fiction” (original home demo of Strange Science)
10) “Summer Work” (early demo)
11) “Rough Love” (home demo of What Kind of Rush)
12) “Am I Normal?” (Early Demo)
13) “Public Transport, Please” (early demo of The Passenger)
14) “Life Weekend” (early Alcoholics Unanimous demo)
15) “I Could Live Here” (the early demo Moved to Los Angeles)
16) “Am I Normal?” (T-shirts B leads to Drama)
17) “A Surge of Love” (T-shirt brings Drama)
18) “Richard, Where is My Record”

Third disk: Brilliant! Tragic! (Expanded)

1) “Smart Smart Jazz”
2) “Lost Weekend”
3) “Bad Comedian”
4) “Sexually Sometimes”
5) “Dog”
6) “Martin Kamp Welch 5 aside the Rule”
7) ‘AXL Rose’
8) “I am a Psyche”
9) “Hockey with Puck”
10) ‘Sealand’
11) “Non-Professional Struggle”
12) ‘Atlanta Girl’ (Frank Black version)
13) “Arizona-Zaliv” (Frank Black version)
14) “Her Majesty” (Beatles Cover)
15) ‘Arizona-Salve’
16) “We Make Pop Music”
17) “Lost Weekend” (home demo)

Fourth disk: Wham! Flap! Question! Let’s Swing!

1) ‘Hurray!’
2) “I hope you are very happy together”
3) “Good morning, Berlin”
4) “She kissed me (and it was like a hit!)”
5) ‘Schwarzführer’
6) “Hospital”
7) “Too Smart”
8) ‘Kultfigur’
9) ‘Veronica Fols’
10) ‘What! Flap! Question! Let’s Swing!’
11) “Awkward Breakfast”
12) “Your Enemies Are Also My Enemies”
13) ‘Hurray! (Alternative Version)’
14) “I hope you are very happy together” (home demo)
15) “Hold This Minors” (unreleased session of the letter)
16) ‘Kultfigur’ (demo)
17) “Veronica Fols” (demo version)
18) “She kissed me, and it was like a hit” (home demo)

Fifth disk: Brutlegs, B-sides & Rare Live Cuts

1) “Contemporary Art” (Berlinische version)
2) ‘Mein Kleiner Bruder’ (My Younger Brother)
3) “Fasting I Calm” (early demo John Fortis)
4) “Next Exit Behind You”
5) “Smoked Again”
6) “Let’s Get Drunk About It”
7) ‘Day of the Records’
8) “Take Care of Me with Caution”
9) “Properties of Perception” (We Are Scientists)
10) “Great Escape / Free Bird” (We Are Scientists / Covers Lynyrd Skynyrd)
11) “Contemporary Art” (Berlin Live)
12) “Fasting I Calm” (Berlin Live)

During an interview with NME last year, Argos reflected on the band’s compilation boxes, various breakthroughs in indie music, and how the group fits into the genre.

“I stood next to this on Pussuar, but I don’t think that we were really part of this,” Argos commented regarding the Indie Sleaze label. “I’m just out of this picture. I’m at the bar for the road. It seemed quite careerist for many of these people, but it was interesting to be in the group.”

“In fact, we were rather strange. We sang about forming a band or contemporary art. I was obsessed with Jonathan Richman; we didn’t quite fit in. We were not aiming to be like the guys from liberation, and we weren’t enough art school to be alongside Franz Ferdinand and their crowd, so we found ourselves early on, trying to make friends with everyone.”