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 Usually, most side projects are often simplified renditions of the artist's main project. The key word in that sentence is usually. However, every now and then, you come across a new side project that is elegantly more spread out and filled with great ideas. Thus is the case with The Last Shadow Puppets' (Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane of The Rascals) The Age of the Understatement. Their familiar brand of spunky and frenetic rock has taking a backseat to Puppets' cinematic and orchestral feel and ultimately, it's a winner....full text |
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| Ew |
| The Last Shadow Puppets, a.k.a. Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and the Rascals' Miles Kane, is an ambitious departure for the U.K. indie rockers. Their debut boasts galloping rhythms and vibrato guitars that are indebted to the work of spaghetti-Western soundtrack maestro Ennio Morricone and lovely orchestrations that call to mind pop-melodrama king Scott Walker. The Age of the Understatement is ultimately an auspicious work from a couple of twentysomethings looking to transcend the term ''side project....full text |
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| Tinymixtapes |
| If any musician understands the age of artistic expression in which we currently reside, it’s Alex Turner. As frontman for prominent, British post-punk outfit, Arctic Monkeys, Turner has become all too accustomed with hyperbole. Musicians exuding even a modicum of imaginative flair and facility while displaying an ability to ship product are never simply described as adroit or popular; instead, they are aggrandized as the “biggest” and “best” since the phonograph was invented and are promptly bombarded with countless gleaming accolades, however slight or inconsequential. For the culture industry must apotheosize in order to attract the mercurial consumer. Thus goes the story of the genuinely gifted Arctic Monkeys, who were described as the “Biggest New Band Since Oasis,” and whose debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006), was the highest selling debut album in the history of British music, even winning the prestigious Mercury Prize....full text |
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