Art Pop

Art Pop, Githeads 2nd album, including a stint in live sound man Frank Lievaart's new Rotterdam studio. The resulting album Art Pop, viewed as the band's most fully realised work to date and released in May 2007 has been receiving very strong reviews.

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1. This Is A Cause (These Are Effects) —B*ST*RD remix
2. To Have And To Hold —Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 14.03.05
3. Antiphon —Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 14.03.05

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Reviews:

Simultaneously brooding, lush, aggressive and lyrical, this is a reclamation of pop and rock music at their most atmospheric and beguiling.

- Michael Bracewell, The WIRE Magazine

Newman seems to have relocated the combination of sardonic intellectual wit and winning pop song craft that made Wire such an engaging (and influential) post punk prospect. *****

- Andy Gill, The Independent

Art Pop is a finely balanced record that seamlessly fuses familiarity and inventiveness.

- Wilson Neate, All Music Guide

Art Pop does exactly what it says on the tin. Githead get my vote again.

- Dean Thatcher, DMC Update

the band combine postmodern lyrics with snarling, melodic funk-grind to put the modern art back into Art Pop

- J R, Flavourpill

Another expertly skewed missive from a paralell pop dimension

- James Papademetrie, Plan B

Gloriously demented

- Dave Simpson, The Guardian

grounded in technological modernity, not the tired styles of yesteryear.

- Louis Pattison, BBC

Art Pop is full of sturdily built, confident, well crafted stuff. Recommended, obviously.

- Richard Foster, Incendiary

With Art Pop, the avant rock supergroup Githead finally delivers, in abundance, on the promise of 2005's Profile. *****

- Andy Gill, The Independent (2nd review)

"On Your Own" is as uplifting an anthem as Newman has ever written.

- BH, Flux

So with Rimbaud crossing his normal boundaries, Newman stretching his pop wings and Minimal Compact's awesome rythmn section, the supergroup (of sorts) Githead succesfully turn upside down all possible preconceptions.

- Artrocker

GITHEAD create a marvelous connection of organic and electronic music.

- Kay Wedel, Ox

Slyly subversive gems that reall Wire when they were edging into poppier territory.

- John Lewis, Uncut

Art Rock collective continues to defy expectations.

- Phil Mongredien, Q

Of course Wire fanatics and those who have continuously followed Newman's solo career will enjoy Art Pop, but additionally it has the potential to reach entirely new audiences as previously mentioned. Finally, Githead has made good on its promise with this essential release.

- Gary Suarez, Brainwashed

Githead produce spacey electro-funk that deconstructs the best electronic musoic and then rebuilds it to their own schematics... Accessible yet unusual.

- Colin Stephenson, Mercury Moon

a deeply textural, and multi-dimensional sound that is nearly impossible to pinpoint on a timescale and surprisingly unpredictable. It's pop-rock, but refined, elaborate and imaginative.

- Michael Ardaiolo, Audiversity

Art Pop is arguably one of the best albums of 2007 yet. At times reminiscent of the smart pop of Peter Gabriel and the guitar swirls of My Bloody Valentine (oh yeah, and Wire. It sounds like Wire sometimes too, if you didn't know), Githead is atmospherically blissful and sonically delicious and/or nutritious. 5/5

- Joe Pelone, Wonka vision

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