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Debut single released on Rough Trade for this group following in the Strokes footsteps. NME gave it single of the week saying 'ARE Weapons are three New York City dirtbags who date models, live on couches & hang out at swanky fashion parties so they can drink all the free beer. Led by a singer called Brain, they play chaotic gigs at art galleries where they like to fight their audience & roll around on the floor, knocking over the exhibits. Like their friends The Strokes, ARE Weapons are hugely retro and sound like they listen to influential art-punks Suicide's first album quite a lot. Their debut single, is an electro-punk anthem about becoming the streetfighting king of New York &, as such, is great. Over buzzing keyboards, big old basslines & a really nasty drum machine Brain sneers lines like, 'I've got my blade/I've got my old lady' to great, grimy effect. The other two tracks are 'Black Mercedes' &