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Name .:. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
Genre : Rock
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Album
Artist : Arctic Monkeys
Label : Domino Records (Goodtogo)
Titel : The Car
Tracks : 10
Playtime : 37:27
Size : 71,59 MB
Encoder : VBRNEW - LAME3.100 - V0
Quality : VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate : avg. 266kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.ThereÆd Better Be A Mirrorball 04:27
02.I AinÆt Quite Where I Think I Am 03:11
03.Sculptures Of Anything Goes 03:59
04.Jet Skis On The Moat 03:18
05.Body Paint 04:51
06.The Car 03:19
07.Big Ideas 03:58
08.Hello You 04:05
09.Mr Schwartz 03:30
10.Perfect Sense 02:49
Total 37:27 Min
When Arctic MonkeysÆ last album Tranquility Base
Hotel & Casino came out in 2018, graffiti appeared
in their former home city Sheffield depicting a
coffin, with a message reading: ôHey Alex . . .
HowÆs California?ö It was directed at the bandÆs
frontman Alex Turner, an emigre to Los Angeles. The
bandÆs new musical direction was a far cry from
their roots too. Instead of clattering guitars,
South Yorkshire slang and sharply drawn observations
about Topshop princesses and lads squaring up in the
taxi queue, Turner and his bandmates had chosen to
reinvent themselves as space-age lounge musicians in
a concept album themed around a luxury hotel. Of
such dreams are rock starsÆ follies made.
For their seventh album The Car, the quartet have
doubled down on the stylistic swerve that they made
on Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. The music sounds
expensive, a plush affair with billowing strings,
richly-layered production and the gilded shimmer of
cymbals. Turner sighs and croons his vocals where
once he drawled and sneered. The lyrics depict a
decadent world of marble staircases, moated
buildings, the popping of champagne corks and
aeroplane descents over the French Riviera. But if
the heart sinks at the prospect of Tranquility Base
Hotel & Casino II, then it rises at the discovery
that this time the Arctic Monkeys have managed to
carry off the style.
ôThereÆd Better Be a Mirrorballö ushers us into the
album with a velvety ballad in which Turner marks
the passing of a relationship that has spun off its
axis with aching vocals and elegant phrases
(ôYesterdayÆs still leaking through the roofö). ôI
AinÆt Quite Where I Think I Amö dramatises lyrics
about feeling out of place with funk guitar and
psychedelic orchestrations, music that both struts
and swoons. Like the rest of the album, it has been
produced by longtime collaborator James Ford.
ôSculptures of Anything Goesö has a brooding
electronic beat and breathy, high vocals with
cryptic verses about fakeness and truth, a regular
theme in TurnerÆs writing. ôBody Paintö is addressed
to ôa master of deception and subterfugeö, an ex-
lover (it seems) who provokes the singer to his most
agitated performance on the record. He is
accompanied by a slow-burning guitar solo from Jamie
Cook that evokes the spirit of Queens of the Stone
Age, an important musical touchstone for the band.
The albumÆs title track is a luxuriant 1970s
orchestral rocker with a dreamlike air of
suspension. ôBig Ideasö is another sumptuously
arranged number in which Turner recounts a comic
tale of convening an orchestra to record a song,
only to forget how it goes. Themes of disillusion
and exhaustion recur throughout this lavishly
appointed album ù but unlike its predecessor, the
results do not exhaust or disappoint.
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