Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

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