Clash Music were lucky enough to get an early listen on the upcoming untitled new album from my beloved Arctic Monkeys. They pretty much loved it, claiming the band has taken things to the next level. Now that is music to my ears!!!
Here is an exerpt from the article:
We were granted a sneak preview of the band’s third album, produced alongside Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme and James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco, this morning, and can now impart the very slightest insight into its sound.
Frontman Alex Turner, fresh from his expansive forays in The Last Shadow Puppets, has retained that laconic croon, while his bandmates extol the same Scott Walker influences in the music, injecting the Arctics with a new sound that sends them onto wild soundscaping adventures. The confidence of the musicianship on show is stunning – they have completely defied any expectations or presumptions to explore the depths they can reach when stepping foot outside their accepted styles. Lyrically, Turner is his usual eloquent self, but has definitely graduated into an incomparable writer whose themes twist and turn through stories and allegories so potent and profound it actually leaves one breathless. Sloping organ patterns create a carnival-esque atmosphere across the album, but it’s a spooky and ethereal trip, a lysergic cavalcade that haunts every track.
I am dying reading that. This wait is going to kill me! Read the entire piece here.
[mp3] : Arctic Monkeys – Baby I’m Yours
Jackie — 3 Jun 09
Thanks for this! I really can’t wait for this to come out.