Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

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