Tags: The Age Of The Understatement, The Last Shadow Puppets
With the Rascals not living up to indie peeps’ hype, cue Alex Turner to give Miles Kane a wee leg up, via side project; The Last Shadow Puppets. Born on a love of Scott Walker and Burt Bacharach, ‘The Age Of The Understatement’ has a profound timeless elegant feel, reiterating that everything the indie-in-chief Monkey seems to touch, turns majestically to gold. The album churns out a barrage of smoking-jacket-mature pop compared to the all-conquering, contemporary and more palatable Arctic Monkey’s chart-topping albums. Don’t let this deter your advances, as this is fundamentally a holy slice of brilliance from what one can only hope is the start of a side project, with that little bit more longevity, than the others. Brimming full of beautific harmonies (’Standing Next To Me’ and ‘Calm Like To You’, to name but a few)it sound like a James Bond soundtrack in the making, shimmering with mystery and charisma. Turner’s uncanny knack of delivery and devilishly astute, yet comedic lyrics, doesn’t desert him in this album. Their vocals complement each other tremendously and bolstered by the indie-hooks that you expect with Turner, there really is little the album lacks. It just falls short of being one of the album of this decade, however sumptuously colossal.
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