Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
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Music CD Cover Artist: Arctic Monkeys Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2007-04-24 Music Label: Domino Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Favourite Worst Nightmare Album
Free Music Review: The Monkeys are beginning to evolve...
Hit: 5 Stars
("Favourite Worst Nightmare" by Arctic Monkeys)
I suppose that Ray Davies and Paul Weller both still think they "invented" the most criticallly acclaimed, and therefore overhyped British band of the last decade (I mean, didn't they?). It's also a little late in the game to keep blathering on about the post-punk revival. Yes, Arctic Monkeys have fallen victim to all of the above, so when it came time for them to prove their worth, many predicted a smug, self-satisfied "I told you so," followed immediately by a career nose dive that would make Oasis look like, um, the Beatles. It's pleasant news that instead the lads have come back with a new album that, while superficially not much different from their debut, is in many ways better.
Starting off with the propulsive, exhilirating "Brainstorm," Favourite Worst Nightmare shows a band determined not to take themselves too seriously, but at the same time prove the mean it, man. While it's tempting to dismiss them as a bunch of too-young-for-their-own-good flash in the pan, theise monkeys have definitely evolved. The twin guiar interplay of Alex Turner and Jamie Cook is shiite hot, new bassist Nick O'Malley keeps their wildly changing songs solid, and drummer Matt Helders deserves some sort of special award--his style is both fluid and precise, not to mention flexible; the softer songs here are every bit as exciting as the rockers. While the album as a whole finds them moving more sharply away from punk, that doesn't mean they sound stodgy. If a band like the Rolling Stones had allowed punk to reinvigorate their sound, they might have sounded a little like the Monkeys do now.
Turner's Lyrics are better than ever--filled with internal rhymes and asides, he makes excess verbiage sound natural (that's one of the reasons music writers lionize the band--they kind of see Turner as a kindred spirit). The finely wrought tales of nightlife from their debut have given way to detailed character studis and even satire. "Brainstorm" is about a vain man named Brian: "And I wonder/Are you putting us under/'Cos we can't take our eyes off his t-shirt/And ties combination." "Old Yellow Bricks," with its sharp melody and new-wavy keyboards (my personal "favourite nightmare" on the album), mixes metaphors about "The Wizard of Oz" and Harry Houdini to describe a transition to adulthood: "Houdini look, you don't know what you're running away from/He wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up/Blinded by nostalgia..." concluding "but Dorothy was right though." Other songs, like the wittily titled "Fluorescent Adolescent" continue on this theme. With this album, Arctic Monkeys realize it's time to grow up, but still find playing to be too much fun. Listening is just about as good.