Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

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Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (stylised as Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino) is the upcoming sixth studio album by English rock band Arctic Monkeys. It will be released on 11 May 2018 through the Domino Recording Company, following up AM (2013). It is produced by frequent Arctic Monkeys collaborator James Ford and band frontman Alex Turner.

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino:

1 Star Treatment
2 One Point Perspective
3 American Sports
4 Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
5 Golden Trunks
6 Four Out of Five
7 The World’s First Ever Monster Truck Front Flip
8 Science Fiction
9 She Looks Like Fun
10 Batphone
11 The Ultracheese

i know i probably shouldn't start a new thread for their new album on here but i'm so excited about this that i did it anyways. i still think AM is, by far, the best thing they have ever done so yeah i'm excited.

the tracklist is v entertaining. i loved am. i'm in

they are coming to Los Angeles and playing at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and tix are really expensive. i didn't know about this new album, now i have to go to that show. the only other show i saw there was Spoon's They Want My Soul tour and it was a very memorable night.

Their last album was their best, but I'm American. Surprising longevity too -- my college students still know every song licensed for commercials. And I hum "Fireside" and "Why'd You Only Call Me..." every couple months.

I was lukewarm on these guys for years until Humbug got its claws in me, which is still my favourite album of theirs although I've warmed to some of their other tracks. It's funny how their debut continues to get all the praise when it's comfortably their worst LP. I'll be giving this a listen.

it's funny, looking back on the reviews for AM and seeing the comments now i guess there was/is a lot of love for that album, but i've always been under the impression it was the point where a lot of people stopped being on board for them.

personally, listening back to it now and remembering both the reason i didn't dig it that much back then (feels a bit rigid, kinda underwritten) but also have a lot more time for it for what it does do well

not among 21-year-old Miamians! I saw them in 2010 for the Humbug tour in a half-empty auditorium; in 2014 they sold it out.

hah, not surprised there—when AM came out, Alex Turner became the unofficial face of a lot of music tumblr. guess i remember a lot more critical backlash than there actually was, although i still think that NME 10 was a bit much

fabulous hair too

slight side note: there's gotta be a cover band a la Mexrissey for these guys, right? like the Arctic Mexikeys or something

I've noticed the usual suspects are vomiting their snark about the return of this band elsewhere, but it's great to know they're going to put out some new stuff.

slight side note: there's gotta be a cover band a la Mexrissey for these guys, right? like the Arctic Mexikeys or something

― austinb

Closest I found

https://youtu.be/j4TUFns6_6c

the Hollywood show has sold out before i was able to get tix. not as bad as today's news in the UK regarding tix, that's a bit insane. one minute and they were gone.

they have added a new show but not for months or Oct 16 at the Hollywood Bowl.

Price Ranges
FIRST LEVEL BENCH BEHIND BOXES: $37.50 - $99.50
FIRST LEVEL GARDEN BOXES: $99.50
LOWER BOX LEVEL SIDE SEATING: $99.50
POOL GENERAL ADMISSION: $99.50
SECOND LEVEL TERRACE BOXES: $99.50
SIDE BOXES RAMP AREA: $99.50
SOLD IN MULTIPLES OF 2 ONLY: $99.50
BENCH SEATING BOX LEVEL: $79.50
SECOND LEVEL BENCH BEHIND BOXES: $49.50 - $59.50
THIRD LEVEL BENCH BEHIND BOXES: $37.50 - $49.50
FOURTH LEVEL BENCH BEHIND BOXES: $37.50

i so wanted to go the the Hollywood Forever Cemetery show, this one is not even the same experience.

Reviews suggest this is a Turner solo album by any other name, 2 songs don't feature the drummer or the bassist. James 'Klaxons' Righton features too supposedly.

fabulous hair too

he's gorgeous.

I'm fine with the idea of the occasional Arctic Monkeys track without drums, even though Helders is as integral to the sound of the band as Turner is. James Righton, though!?!

it's just really difficult to take seriously a band who perform songs about Real Britain when they've been outed as massive tax dodgers, if people have fallen out of love with them it will be more to do with that than anything they've done musically

Perform songs about real Britain? When do they do that?

On their first album, allegedly. Now they're more like Def Leppard in the sense they're both from Sheffield, USA.

they have added a second show at the Hollywood Bowl. has anyone seen them live, are they any good live?

not a fan of it being on a Tuesday or Wednesday in the heart of Hollywood. man, i'm getting old where shit like that matters. they are going to be in San Francisco the following weekend so it might be that or nothing...

http://www.nme.com/news/music/arctic-monkeys-air-new-material-first-show-2018-2307484

All sounds quite Shadow Puppety. I do love this idea that he wants to sound like Dion in the 70s, i couldn't have seen that coming in 2006.

they posted their first show playlist in that link, love that they ended the show with "RU Mine" love, love, love the drumming in that song.

or maybe it was the video that made me fall in love with the drumming for "RU Mine."

https://media.ticketmaster.co.uk/tm/en-gb/dam/a/f13/76a3ba6b-9346-41ab-86db-e19fdfd3ef13_675731_CUSTOM.jpg

Turner rocking that "been on smack for the last couple of years" look in recent promo pics.

i hope he hasn't.

this is pretty beaut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD6eU4p1DKU

fuck me, i'm going to Arctic Monkeys in Hollywood tonight. they released like two tickets and i got one of them.

ugh Alex Turner's hair

i’m sure you’ll love it, current setlists look fabulous.

and the shows?

who the heck is Cameron Avey? should i get there early to see him?

02nd May 2018
CAMERON AVERY ANNOUNCED AS THE SUPPORT FOR SAN DIEGO, LOS ANGELES AND BROOKLYN NY
Cameron Avery has been announced as the support for the following shows:

May 2: San Diego, The Observatory

May 3: San Diego, The Observatory

May 5: Los Angeles, Hollywood Forever Cemetery

May 9: Brooklyn NY, Brooklyn Steel

watched a Youtube of him, trying to be Roxy Music i think.

he's in Tame Impala

Really? I think I will need to see that.

I'm so nervous right now I have seen close to 250 shows and this will be only the 2nd one where I'm by myself

I'm sure you'll bee ok *shows self out*

What an incredible time to be alive

I did work on Cameron Avery's solo record and it's really quite nice, if you wanted a kind of hybrid between the Aussie psych of Tame Impala and more tempered Brit-song

He also plays in Pond iirc

"moth wings" by pond one of my favourite all-time yoga flame 4ever songs

How was the show, Bee OK?

this is how my day started yesterday. i actually had an opportunity to buy tickets when there were some left. my friends were a little slow on letting me know that they wanted to go. by the time they said yes, it was too late. yesterday i decided to look at tickets on my phone and it said there are tickets on sales. i went to buy two tickets and it said, not available try a different quantity. i ran to my computer and tried to buy tickets, it said sold out. so then i had a debate with myself. do i want to go to this concert by myself? i think i still have this ticket on my phone but need to make up my mind. i'm thinking, well i'm probably too late but let's see if it will let me buy just one ticket. it went to the payment page and i was freaking out. i guess i'm going after all.

i make my way to Hollywood and find free parking, i'm having a great day, i get out of my car and took this picture:

https://imgur.com/a/MzpxxiY

let me try that again:

https://imgur.com/Oq2cbUB

https://i.imgur.com/Oq2cbUB.jpg

new to Imgur.

1. Four Out of Five
2. Arabella
3. Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
4. The View From the Afternoon
5. Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
6. 505
7. The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
8. She Looks Like Fun (with Cameron Avery)
9. Crying Lightning
10. Do I Wanna Know?
11. Brianstorm
12. Pretty Visitors
13. You're So Dark
14. Snap Out of It
15. Cornerstone
16. Knee Socks
17. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

Encore:

18. One Point Perspective
19. One for the Road
20. R U Mine?

Hollywood Forever Cemetery. May 5, 2018

Did they rise from the sludge and break through the glass ceiling looking better than ever?

https://i.imgur.com/tzGxGbR.jpg

i'm not the biggest Arctic Monkeys fan to begin with. i bought their debut album back in the day but only followed them with their singles for the next few albums. when i heard "Do You Wanna Know?" i ended up buying AM. i fell head over hills for that album to become a newer fan of these guys. i did miss the opening band and this place was packed. got there when they played "Arabella" and it was perfect. this band is at the top of their game. they didn't talk to the audience other then "Hollywood you're so dark" but had them in the palm of their hands. the band was on point all night where it felt like they have been on the road for a bit, which is not true, this was their third show for this new album. the AM tracks stuck out of me, they seem to have a groove to them that is sort of missing from their other songs. not to take anything away from the other songs as they were also a lot of fun. "You're So Dark", "Knee Socks," "One for the Road" and "R U Mine?" along with the other two massive songs from AM were absolute highlights. "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" was puck rock with everyone jumping up and down. had a blast last night as that was a special night. go see them when they come to town if you are interest, you will not be disappointed.

Did they rise from the sludge and break through the glass ceiling looking better than ever?

they did, there was way too much energy on stage for being in a smack stage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSDa1Gv5RyM

this is a B-side from AM that i didn't now about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVM0t6CLPT8

sorry about the grimmer errors like always. i really should re-read what i write before hitting submit.

I can think of grimmer errors than going to a H’wood Forever show on a nice warm evening... glad you had fun!

he has that louche Lloyd Cole vibe

OTM

since this will probably only be on for a few more hours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zbYDXsbrRo

can we discuss this

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double fantasy

holy fuck this is NOT sounding good at all. It reminds me of the garrulous horrors of the third album.

Humbug is their finest record, IMO... if this new one is most like that, then I might like it.

well this isn't good news Alfred. i'm going to stay optimistic along with Turrican and hope for great things from this. the songs i heard live sounded good.

oh wow, this gets release Friday on Spotify, so i guess we will all find out soon enough.

I got notification yesterday that it was gonna be delivered today.

I got one today saying it's delayed. SO, I guess it'll arrive when I'm out and I'll have to go to their depot bladeblah...

I got notification yesterday
That it was gonna be delivered today...
I got one today
Saying it's delayed

<Channnggggggg>

can't believe they haven't taken this all down by now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6phkb5TB1U

Some gorgeous stuff on this ere album but it's surprising just how much of it is samey and cold and distant. I like the highlights very much.
Batphone is as-good-as unlistenable. Seems they are trending on Twitter in the UK because people hate it so much, it's The Last Jedi all over again.

Turrican otm about Humbug being their best, jumped off the bandwagon before AM came out but the distaste for this new one has me curious

lounge!

huh, from the first three tracks i think i really like this? i guess i'm not surprised it's getting panned though

Living with it for almost a week, I'm convinced half of it meanders in search of melodies that Turner's piano and voice can't support, but it was ever thus with these dudes.

the melodies are a little oblique and ungiving sometimes ("golden trunks" seems to go in reverse every time it alights on something pleasurable to hear)... but i'm pretty sure that's why it's good

AM is pretty samey too tbh, despite some excellent songs. I've never made it through from start to finish i don't think

oh wow it was all worth it for "four out of five"

these songs are all short but they're very internally proggy

you are NOT going to get me to hear this

oh wow it was all worth it for "four out of five"

― flamenco drop (BradNelson),

yes, this is the highlight (those harmonies).

apparently everyone hates "batphone" but it sounds like the rest of the record

and it's good

This is their Black Celebration.

At this point the Arctic Monkeys are rapidly overtaking Lana Del Rey as the people who should obviously be working on the next James Bond theme

Yeah you can just imagine it can't you? I mean they let Radiohead have a crack..

I don't particularly care about them but man "Four out of Five" is indeed a jam

This is their Black Celebration.

― piscesx, Friday, May 11, 2018 9:22 AM

There's one track that begins with a synth preset right out of mid '80s Depeche Mode.

ah it's "Batphone."

this record brings up a lot of weird comparison points for me. like i feel like jellyfish might've made this record had they traded in paisley overalls and wide-eyed awe for impenetrably dark sunglasses and ennui

Turner's always traded on ennui, though, right? This time he's shooting for the rotter vibe of This is Hardcore, and I'm still wondering if he's cramming too many words onto rickety melody lines.

I realized yesterday that I had a terrible download. The stream sounds much better.

oh yeah totally it just feels even more locked into that ennui than even their previous records. this is hardcore came to mind too

bowie/queen glam/prog axis of worship but sitting poolside and dissociative

poolside did you say

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damn I really like this, the fact that UK fans hate it is just icing

I dig this so far! seems like it would be good to get lifted to

I think not being super invested in the Arctic Monkeys helps

I've yet to hear this, but if people are hating it because it sounds like Humbug or because it isn't their (incredibly overrated) debut then I may like it.

the fact that UK fans hate it is just icing

Explain.

oh I just love the idea of Mojo-reading lads being like "hell yeah time to rock" then listening to...this

I'm not excessively fond of the debut or "I Bet You Look Good..." either; the second album impressed me, though, and "Fluorescent Adolescent" remains their best fast single imo.

this doesn’t sound like any of their previous records

there’s also a pretty audible r&b element in the first two tracks, makes me think turner’s been listening to a lot of al green

Re 'MOJO reading lads' Mojo had the first interview before the album came out and the band did a playlist of influences for 'em (Dion, Nino Rota, David Axelrod, Gainsbourg..) so anyone reading Mojo knew before anyone else that the record wasn't a rock album. It's more for 30 and 40-something types Mojo. Lads are more 'LadBible' these days.

I feel like people like to use Mojo as a strawman more than anything, this is a total record collector Mojo album

I confess I have no idea what the lads read these days and I don't think I've read a mojo article in at least half a decade, just didn't want to use NME since they went under or something

I don't think "lads" have ever read Mojo. Mojo is more geared towards a Steve Hoffman Forum type of audience.

What the hell is this?

180 degree change. I think I like it

bee ok otm

I haven't listened to this yet, but I long assumed that it was going to sound like a Last Shadow Puppets album. Am I wrong in this assumption?

that is wrong, I think? (never heard the second one)

it feels pretty linked to "everything you've come to expect" from the second one

Haven't heard it yet but remember them throwing 'Lounge' around a lot during the Suck it and See press, into the idea of their biggest record just being an anomaly.

Also Simon's right, as immature as it is, pissing off the nme/britrock/catfish and the bottlemen crowd will always endear me.

Yeah, I was thinking more about the second album, than their first.

Xp yeah very much Brad. Also i feel that the mumbling-along-with-a-synth (a Moog?) bit of '505' as far back as album 2 is similar.

i LOVE the title track

Yeah that, Four Out Of Five and Star Treatment would BE the ones i'd save from a fire.

ffs I'm listening to this now

:D

actually i have no idea how you'll feel about it

im curious too!

Yeah that, Four Out Of Five and Star Treatment would BE the ones i'd save from a fire.

― piscesx, Friday, May 11, 2018 11:04 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'd save them all
but i'm no hero

this is odd and not too bad, doesn't sound like AM at all

not really for me but fine tbh!

one for the sticker

Was able to finally finish this up. Not what I'm sure anymore was explaining from Arctic Monkeys. I'm sure fans are going to hate it. I think Brad said it was a lounge record and that it is. Not sure what to think really but don't see myself playing this a lot this year as it's not my style.

Good for them though to try something completely different

Isn't the lounge singer thing intentional though, as in it's part of the concept of the record? Or so I read.

Anyway I listened to the four tracks that seem to be getting the most love/attention on this thread and liked them. Not sure I need to hear the rest but yeah, good on yer, Alex.

He's impressed me almost every step of the way. I remember when the first album came out and there was all this Brit-pop hype, with him the next Ray Davies. I was doubtful, but ... the album was good. Then I saw them live behind that record and they were great. Then I totally tuned out except for whatever I heard on the radio, and what I did hear ... was pretty good, too! And this one is really good as well, very Pulp/Richard Hawley/David Bowie, which is nothing I ever would have expected from him.

I haven't heard the album but "4 out of 5 stars" is really good. Lounge lizard Bowie vibes.

"She Looks Life Fun" is brilliant IMO. 70s glam through a 'White Album' lens.

hm i'm starting to think every song on this is amazing

I haven’t listened to this yet, and I’m glad when albums turn out well however it’s done. Yet it’s kind of emperor’s new clothes that no one is saying why so many musicians have gone synth or changed their songwriting style to be less distinctive. The musicians can’t explain it themselves, they’ll get attacked from both sides.

Maybe the public might care a little more with some awareness of what streaming does in specific cases, more so than just hearing about homogenization in general. That’s too ambiguous — it’s 101 that arguments need specific examples to demonstrate the point.

This band has not gone synth or gotten less distinctive.

Muso question: is all the melodic bass stuff a bass or a baritone guitar?

"She Looks Life Fun" is brilliant IMO. 70s glam through a 'White Album' lens.

― Milton, Saturday, May 12, 2018 8:33 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally otm, with a bridge that lifts off into queen territory

acoustic piano is way more dominant instrument than synths on this

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/review-arctic-monkeys-tranquility-bass-hotel-w520154

the Rolling Stone review is pretty negative which fine but quotes like this make your wonder did you actually listen? because it's clearly talking about restaurant reviews

"But the meandering LP can't bear the weight of the man at the piano's indulgences; "Four Out of Five" literally riffs off music magazine star ratings"

"She Looks Like Fun" was the highlight of their new songs when I heard them live last week .

Definitely heard a Bowie "Man who sold the world" album influence

“the ultracheese” is so good

their best album

absolutely

such a gluey, borderline offputting listen at first. but "american sports" was the first for me to burst open and spill out a load of hooks and glorious bits and pieces - the second verse is wedged in my head.

flipping through the lyrics, i can see where the accusations of smugness come from, but shocked at how he's really scratching a top tier itch and the bowie, walker, mark e smith, nick cave comparisons are not necessarily hyperbole. shocked, i say.

everything about this album invites massive scrutiny of the lyrics, which is, ceteris paribus, a commendable ambition for a guy in his position. I'm not gonna comment on whether they hold op or not, but did MES ever do that in such a way? or even Bowie? You could argue that they both contiuously had other, both implicit and explicit narratives underpinning and driving forward their records.

This record is certainly much harder to pin down than any of their previous work which can make it sound like A. Turner really doesn't know what it's about. That he perhaps stumbled on to an core idea of this distant, enigmatic, dreamlike aesthetic, and put himself, or rather distorted and reshaping perceptions of himself in there and kept feeding it with lyrical imagery and wit.

Either way, I don't really know what to make of it but I find it appealing so far and certainly not ready to write it off.

so who ya gonna call?
the martini police?

I'm so full of shite
I need to spend less time stood around in bars
Waffling on to strangers all about martial arts
And how much I respect them

^^^ operating close to nigel blackwell levels here

I'm amazed y'all think this is their best

Its easily their best

Their second is easily their best.

i think this record tries pretty hard to be their best, and succeeds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Es-8FfATo

fantastic

xxpost

off the money for me. Humbug is also better than Favourite Worst Nightmare

so who ya gonna call?
the martini police?

― Simon H., Sunday, May 13, 2018 10:54 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love this lyric and i need alfred to get on this album's wavelength bc of it

I like that one!

I can't wait to hear this now!

can't really listen to this album but that Alex Turner spotify playlist is really good ✓

Overheard it this morning and thought it was a Pulp song.

and in response to what you whispered in my ear
i must admit, sometimes...
i fantasize about you too

^ the melody behind those lyrics is so exquisite, feels like descending a spiral slide

was thinking of other recent albums that do so much in service of such a singular vibe and remembered that Matt Helders played drums for Diddy Dirty Money on uk tv

When Alex first sings "Take it easy for a little while" on Four out of Five, I expect the next line to be "I like to watch things on TV".

When Alex first sings "Take it easy for a little while" on Four out of Five, I expect the next line to be "I like to watch things on TV".

Ugh sorry pocket posted

.... and that's u unheard of

oh wow that video is great!

well maybe not great but goes with the song so well.

man is this album addictive. i seem to play it, it finishes and i play it again. today on Spotify it was seeing what i have been playing and recommended Pulp's His 'N; Hers, since i know that album by Pulp the least i played it. it really does sound similar to this new Arctic Monkeys record. very good pick up Spotify.

Muso question: is all the melodic bass stuff a bass or a baritone guitar?

Bass!

Also this album is excellent, I feel that anybody who thinks it's Arctic Monkeys' best.. doesn't like Arctic Monkeys? Alfred is right, their second is their best

This album is extremely cut-from-the-same-cloth as Alex's immediately preceding album (the roundly maligned but imho often excellent second Last Shadow Puppets album)

i like most of their records! this one feels special idk

I think this new one is their best but I'm one of those people who doesn't like them usually

my favorite album before this one was humbug if that helps

Big into this

Bee ok is a quality poster as well!

Sipping vodka and apple juice. Good album with that mix

Something great about records where someone picks up a new instrument and approaches it with vigour. See also white chalk and you are free

awe, <3. thanks Ross. i love ILM and do what i can.

<3

Something great about records where someone picks up a new instrument and approaches it with vigour. See also white chalk and you are free

― Ross, Saturday, May 19, 2018 2:51 AM (eighteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I'm a total fan of this. R.E.M.'s "Green" has a lot of this, too.

Word prefecture!

If I was asked to describe this album to a layman I would say it sounds like a whole album of five years covers with the Benny n the jets backing band. Easy listening injected with some fire

I've always sort of ignored these guys but I bought this yesterday and really enjoy it. It is legitimately weird.

Something great about records where someone picks up a new instrument and approaches it with vigour. See also white chalk and you are free

And of course Sting's "The Dream of the Blue Turtles." Such vigor.

maybe i was a little too wild in the 70s

Excuse me man, I lost my train of thought

.....

I've always sort of ignored these guys but I bought this yesterday and really enjoy it. It is legitimately weird.

give it a listen alex, it's dope

i've not heard a single lick of their music before this, knowingly

oh y'all weren't lying, this fucks

The 'fastest selling album on vinyl in 25 years'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-44174112?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

dance as if somebody's watching... cause they are...

i've not heard a single lick of their music before this, knowingly

― Music is confidence (Ross), Wednesday, May 23, 2018 7:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same. Tried to avoid (stupid name, lol-england lads etc, feared an even worse than Kaiser Chiefs rip-off) but I have to admit the Bowie references are making me slightly curious. If someone throws in a 'not unlike late 60s Scott Walker'-ref I will have to bite the bullet.

it is not unlike late '60s scott walker

Took my car to the garage today. The loan car didn't have a CD player (and I wasn't organised enough to have taken an MP3 player). Ended up flicking through various radio channels including Radio 6. There were Arctic Monkeys songs played on the journey to and from work. Anyway, I was kind of reminded of Robbie Williams in his "trying to be clever" mode.

maybe that applies more to the last last shadow puppets record with the thickening strings. can still hear him in tranquility base though xp

DAMN YOU BRAD!

(luv u Brad)

I’m so old I remember wearing a yes to everything pin when the debut came out (music store employee 4 years)

it is not unlike late '60s scott walker

The 2 big influences were Gainsbourg's Melody Nelson and Dion's Born To Be With You.

On my third listen to this album now. Before I heard this album, Humbug was my favourite album of theirs, and now that I've heard this album it still is. This album isn't too far behind at the moment, though! When I first put it on, I was a bit thrown, but by the time 'American Sports' kicked in I was pretty much sold. It's something quite different for them and I really hope it pisses off the fans who wrongly think they never bettered their first album.

afaict it really has

from the RS article regarding cover art:

"I was going to the art supply store quite often".

"I became consumed by that. Getting up in the middle of the night and delving in. I kept calling it the lobby model, like the idea that sometimes those things sit in the lobbies of the buildings they represent - like in The Shining, with the miniature hedge maze in the lobby, and he's looking in there and then he sees the people are in there".

'Batphone' is pretty much the only track that I find to be not as good as the others. At the moment, anyway. They're maturing really nicely as a band though, and they eventually won me over which is quite something given that 12 years ago I thought they were fucking awful.

(x-post to Brad)

batphone is a little weird but the prior track references bruce wayne manor, so points for consistency??

the guitars sound a lot like portishead on this, frazzled and mono

it's all getting gentrifiiiied

the only time that we stop laughing
is to breathe
or steal a kiss

and I really hope it pisses off the fans who wrongly think they never bettered their first album.

Yes, that's what's really important. Maybe put it as a sticker on the cover?

Did I tell you about that
Time I was sucked into a hole?

cheeeeeseburger

Also this album does in fact rock

Track 3 loud on the stereo banged hard!

can't get enough of this

Me too man. It’s like crack but (cheaper)

you people have mad cow disease

Your face

idk what you're not hearing here alfred

i revisited favourite worst nightmare the other day and it's great, those opening two tracks are furious, but it gets kinda loose on the second side!

Alfred needs a cock tail

every time i listen i latch onto a different lyric, bass lick, drum fill

Lyrics are so self effacing and funny it’s easy to love

I like half the album! But I can't get past the mismatch of ambition and prowess. He can't sing these songs, crams too many words, and sounds awful doing so.

after a few listens the words relaxed really nicely into the knotting song structures. i have zero problems with his singing here

I actually totally get what Alfred’s saying

:-/.

There’s definitely a lot of space filling with esoteric lyrics. I noticed this the other night when my buddy was over. It’s not really
Background music and commands everything

Humbug > Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino > AM > Suck It and See > Favourite Worst Nightmare >>> The debut.

Descending order:

Favourite Worst Nightmare
AM
debut
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
SIAS
Humbug

tranquility > humbug > nightmare > am > suck > debut

poll!

I suppose we aren’t really friends anymore

tranquility > humbug > nightmare > am > suck > debut

― devvvine, Thursday, May 31, 2018 1:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

absolutely correct, wow

here ain't no place for dolls like you and me

The rolling stone issue in which the band was recently featured gave the album 2 stars.

Review:

“The Arctic Monkeys have come a long way since the stun-gun punk of their 2006 hit “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”. A really long way. Their first LP in five years is a lounge-rock odyssey set in a casino piano bar on the moon. Frontman Alex Turner lands somewhere between glum-glam Bowie and Dean Martin on tracks like “Star Treatment” where he croons, “I’m a big name in deep space, ask your mates/But golden boy’s in bad shape.”
It’s not without a certain vermouth-zonked charm. But after a while in Turner’s wee small hours, you may want to hop the next shuttle back to Earth.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfF9BSJXUAAgc2X.jpg

BBC2 tomorrow night

A new Arctic Monkeys BBC special will air tomorrow (June 8).
The band will be the latest to be the subject of an At The BBC show, following in the footsteps of the likes of Adele, Sam Smith, Harry Styles and U2, amongst others.

Fans had petitioned for the band to be given a live concert special on the network

OK he's really trying for "Vogue photographer circa 1976" isn't he

he is, i love it.

if you are a fassbinder fan you can't help but see the connection between him and the aesthetic on a lot of these recent shots

i went to Target today and saw this for $8.99 and almost bought it, but i resisted my impulse buy as i don't buy CDs any longer. it seemed like such a good deal but still passed.

Four stars out of five!

And that's unheard of!

Good session on bbc2 last night

is that on-line anywhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96gk33voxz8

it's kinda funny seeing turner use his newer vocal approach for "dancefloor," but he makes it mostly work imo

that video is so awesome

link has been taken away but i was able to watch before that happened. it was great, love that they played "R U Mine."

this album is so addicting. i always look at my new stuff and think what should i play today. this seems to win on most occasions.

definitely. i went through that spin for awhile, now back to beach house

the BBC performance was amazing

excuse me miss, i lost train of thoooughrt

the ex-cit-ing
sound of data storage
first thing in the morning

smile like you got a straw in something
tropicaaal

but the truth is i'm probably not... if I ever was

good line and poignant delivery right here

i lost the money
lost the keys
but i'm still handcuffed to the briefcase

This is like if ween and three dog night had a bastard

I like it

Ween's a good spot!

There's another Spotify playlist here, the music they've been playing in the hour or so before they come on at shows

https://open.spotify.com/user/nobodytoldme/playlist/6MwQUZDrUdBs2UW3vMZDu0?si=Y_07xtgrR6yPgrS4n33R3Q

cockney rebel just occurred to me as well

i somehow haven't posted on this thread yet, but this is obviously fantastic. "four stars out of five" is the obvious standout, but i'm really digging the final two tracks right now. "batphone" has my favorite piano part on the record and i love the slinky guitar and the chintzy synth. and "the ultracheese" is a beautiful country torch song, reminds me a bit of conway twitty and a bit of "on top of old smoky"

Killer pink flamingos
Computer controlled
Panoramic windows looking out across your soul

I think a lot of fans of the album might appreciate this from The Last Shadow Puppets, Alex Turner wrote this one on his own and it features no Miles Kane vocal either so it's essentially a solo song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omm4d6aCR5k

That "moon's side boob" lyric, tho!

ugh Alex Turner's hair

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, May 5, 2018 8:59 PM (two months ago)

you'll be thrilled to see he's done.. something about that:

he just wanted to be one of the damn strokes!!1! @ArcticMonkeys @thestrokes pic.twitter.com/yBbKCoWuji

— mon (@folkgoth) July 25, 2018

four stars out of five!

oh has he had a haircut?

he looks like Nick Jonas

he's a total beaver

This album is still sounding great to me - the only track that I'm not keen on is 'Batphone', which doesn't seem to have grown on me all that much. Still, the rest of the album is fantastic.

album reminds me of pulp this is hardcore a lot

i love this record but sometimes the vocals get in the way for me, after a whole record it is a little wearying..first half is absolutely solid tho and stellar closer

It doesn't remind me of This is Hardcore at all!

really just the song dishes i think tbh

what the fuck

Why?

do more people “get” this record now? bc it’s fucking amazing

It's a good record that I haven't felt the need to listen to for months.

thanks anyone else

i haven't put it on in a while but i still know all the words

I made a note to relisten.

thought it was amazing and their best and haven't been unconvinced of that yet.

still think AM is their best but this album is also really good. there was a point where i couldn't stop listening to it and not a lot of albums do that to me anymore. this concert was also really, really good. it will be interesting what they do next.

I think the first half is really strong, it peaks with 'Four Out of Five', and then the second half isn't as good as the first but has a couple of highlights ('She Looks Like Fun' and 'The Ultracheese') - The part where 'One Point Perspective' segues into 'American Sports' is still my favourite part of the album, and I have no time at all for 'Batphone'. I played the shit out of the album when it was first released, and while I still love the fact that it rubs fans of their earlier work up the wrong way, I think AM and Humbug are better albums.

'star treatment' came on at the bar last nite and i couln't help but sing along to the whole thing

should do a trax poll

yeah, I love this record

Still love the best tracks, and the BBC live show thing from last year is up in full now on YouTube, featuring many older tunes 'done' in a
Tranquility Base style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J9AzL0wMcA

agreed with those who say this is their best album, disagree with those who have no time for batphone

"Batphone" rules!

if anything I hope their next one pushes the sparseness even further just to annoy ppl

'Batphone' is one of the dullest things this band have ever done. An absolute waste of time.

sorry, we're talking about the song "batphone" by the arctic monkeys, not "bananaphone" by raffi

thanks again turrican for weighing in with the intellectual rigor of a youtube comment

Hey, I'm all for people wasting their own time, as long as it ain't mine.

I launch my fragrance called "Integrity"
I sell the fact that I can't be bought

the intellectual rigor of a youtube comment

Turrican needs to up his game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gQrjweCqE8

put this on for the first time in a while and yeah still great. miles beyond the rest of their records

feels like the first thing they've done that both wholly makes good on their promise and removes all the negative influences

it's fantastic

I get 4 Stars Out of 5 in my head all the time
.

i want to make a simple point about peace and love
but in a sexy way where it's not obvious

This is so great even though I hate how the drums sound. Modern live drum sound I hear on everything from Jack white to lianne la havas.

such beautiful photography
it's worth it for the opening scene
i've been driving round
listening
TO THE SCORE

I don't mind the drums but *that* bass sound has been everywhere these last few years. I've seen Alex Turner talking about trying to get the bass to sound like Histoire de Melody Nelson.

What's up with the drums, do you think?

It's some sort of 70s ish flat, low reverb, fat, dry kind of snare that would be the 'warm' setting on production software or something, idk. I actually let this album pass me by until I heard their versions of these songs on their Albert hall live album which are even better than on the album.

I think AT is my musical man crush. I love how he sings on this.

Maybe I was a little too wild in the seventiieeeees

apparently recorded a new album last month with plenty of double bass & piano

This is as good as i've ever seen them; as much down to the crowd as the fellas themselves. But also it's rare to see a gig on live Tv that captures what it's like to be there. There's a few songs missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppqP39p6VmI

so who ya gonna call
the martini police?