The Auteurs were born at the height of the Brit-pop wave in the 1990s. Like
Suede, this band brought a touch of class, between neo-glam and dark
romanticism, to this musical trend. Emerging from the mists of London in 1993
with New Wave, a fine album of melodic pop-rock, then evaporating in 1999 after
their fourth album, The Auteurs may have left a bitter taste in the mouth of
their leader Luke Haines, who, no doubt aware of having missed out on that
little stroke of luck with which an international career is built, continues to
distill his sarcastic dandy compositions in other p...