In other words: Want more of where that last stuff we did came from? OK, then- here’s something completely, mind-blowingly different. The closest analogy to Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino- aside from it sounding more like an offshoot of the Last Shadow Puppets, the Brit rock supergroup that Turner cranks up in his spare time-is Radiohead’s Kid A. It’s barely even an Arctic Monkeys record, unless you’re hung up on, you know, technicalities. It’s not a brash, faux-confident, we-are-rock-stars record (that’s AM, from five years ago). This isn’t a precocious-snotty-nosed-Brit-rockers-with-attitude (that’d be their debut, which Turner started writing when he was 16). But here’s the thing about the band’s sixth album: That attack never comes-and that’s a glorious thing. That groovy, lounge-y, vaguely trip-hop vibe you hear at the outset of the Arctic Monkeys’ new record- just before frontman Alex Turner croons, “I just wanted to be one of the Strokes/now look at the mess you made me make/ hitchhiking with a monogrammed suitcase” on “Star Treatment”? If you’re already an Arctic Monkeys fan, you’re likely bracing yourself for the inevitable punky guitar attack that kicks in shortly thereafter.
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