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The Last Shadow Puppets - The Last Shadow Puppets
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A suitably monumental setting for a few lessons in rock’n’roll history and their final (for now) shows. New York City (October 30) Nov 13, 2008 2 Comments The Last Shadow Puppets news, reviews, video and tour dates Add The Last Shadow Puppets to MyNME It probably seems like half a lifetime ago for Miles Kane and Alex Turner, but barely eight months have passed since The Last Shadow Puppets made their clandestine live debut in this very town, battling to make their spellbindingly elegant pop songs heard above all manner of obnoxious pricks yelling for a quick verse of ‘When The Sun Goes Down’. That giant, simian spectre could have easily smothered the duo at birth but as they bid farewell (for the short term at least), it’s clear these boys have cast their own sizeable shadow over British music. Having made the rapid rise from underdog balladeers to a mini-Rat Pack for the MySpace generation, it’s no wonder The Last Shadow Puppets look so confident....full text |
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Numerous rock scribes have dubbed 22-year-old Alex Turner and 21-year-old Miles Kane as the future of British pop. But ironically, the Arctic Monkeys and Rascals frontmen (respectively) have spent much of the last year tipping their hats to the genre's past. The Last Shadow Puppets, the pair's collaborative side project, owe as much to the Righteous Brothers as they do to Oasis' Gallagher brothers. While each made his mark by composing edgy, modern-sounding Britpop, the Puppets' distinctive panache is a result of the elegant, '60s-styled harmonies and swooning, symphonic orchestrations that enrich their melody-soaked tunes. "The Age of the Understatement," the pair's 2008 debut, is a charming footnote to the boys' full-time gigs. But there was nothing secondary about the Shadow Puppets' Oct. 30 performance on at Manhattan's intimate Grand Ballroom. In many ways, the show was a bigger, bolder and more grandiose presentation than fans have seen from either performer before....full text |
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Everyone has a different version of the 1960s, especially those who weren’t born at the time. Alex Turner, who leads Arctic Monkeys, and Miles Kane, from the Liverpool band the Rascals, both 22, reach for their own anachronisms as the songwriters and guitarists in the Last Shadow Puppets, who played their first full United States concert on Thursday night at the Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom. Enlarge This Image Nicholas Roberts for The New York Times Miles Kane, far left, and Alex Turner, at the microphone, of the Last Shadow Puppets in concert. Multimedia Video: The Last Shadow Puppets The Last Shadow Puppets don’t care about garage-rock, psychedelia, Merseybeat or other well-trodden revivals. Their fixation is the way the 1960s warped orchestral, cinematic pop. In the studios of Hollywood and the British film industry, in movie soundtracks and in radio hits, pop moved from Tin Pan Alley urbanity to more eccentric chronicles, while it added reverb-drenched rock guitar to symphonic strings and horns. The properly arranged and rehearsed forces of studio musicians were deployed on new, stranger missions....full text |
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