The Age of the Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement

The Age of the Understatement
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Artist: The Last Shadow Puppets
Brand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Music Label: Domino
Soundtracks:
  1. The Age of the Understatement
  2. Standing Next To Me
  3. Calm Like You
  4. Seperate and Ever Deadly
  5. Chamber
  6. Only The Truth
  7. My Mistakes Were Made For You
  8. Black Plant
  9. I Don't Like You Any More
  10. In My Room
  11. Meeting Place
  12. The Time Has Come Again

Free Music Notes for The Age of the Understatement

Free Music Review: A Great Album in a Time of Horrible Music
Hit: 5 Stars

I'm nineteen years old, and I hate most current music with a fiery passion. I'm an avid fan of classic rock, and I hardly listen to any music that came out after the 70s. Having said that, this is one of three new bands whose music I actually enjoy.

I'm not a musician. This isn't a review of how the album sounded technically, or about how the influences of this, that, and the other can clearly be heard. I don't know about any of that. All I know is that this music is wonderful. It obviously has influences from older music, but it's also completely original. It's so completely different from all the drivel that the radio and television stations try to cram down my throat. Alex and Miles are brilliant songwriters, and the instrumentation is absolutely beautiful. I can listen to "The Meeting Place" or "Time Has Come Again" over and over. Overall, this is one of the best albums I've ever heard. I'm so glad Alex and Miles got on so well and decided to record together, and I hope they continue with The Last Shadow Puppets for a long time to come.

I'd like to bring up something that bothered me as I read the reviews. Alex is NOT the only member in the band, and he's not any more important than Miles. Most of the reviews talk about how great Alex is, or compare this album with Arctic Monkeys, but Miles was hardly mentioned at all. I know Alex is more famous, but they did this together. They wrote the songs together, they both sang, and they both played instruments. They made the album because they're best friends and they like the same music, and it aggravates me to no end when people refer to The Last Shadow Puppets as "the side project of Alex Turner." They're both in other bands, that doesn't make this a side project. Sorry if this turned into a rant, but I would like to see Miles get some credit and attention for a change.

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The Last Shadow Puppets are Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane (The Rascals). The pair were so inspired by listening to the likes of Scott Walker, early Bowie, and David Axelrod, that they recorded this album of twelve full-blooded songs, bold and brassy, full of drama, wit, and melody. The orchestration of the tracks was recorded by the 22-piece London Metropolitan Orchestra. Look for this duo on select US dates in September with full band and a large string section.
Famous for demonstrating how less is more when it comes to publicity, it comes as no surprise that The Age of the Understatement, the first side project from Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, should appear to no great fanfare. The Last Shadow Puppets are Turner and Miles Kane, formerly of Monkeys tourmates The Little Flames and now in the Rascals, aided by producer (and here, drummer) James Ford, also of Simian Mobile Disco. Inspired by the widescreen orchestral Sixties pop of Scott Walker and legendary arranger David Axelrod, they enlisted the London Metropolitan Orchestra under the aegis of Canadian Owen Pallett (aka Final Fantasy and an erstwhile member of the Arcade Fire's string section). The result is entirely successful, owing as much to the romanticism of Richard Hawley and the eclectic approach of the Coral as any sixties precursors. The thundering title track is pure Scott though, "I Don't Like You Anymore" is twisted pop in the best Cosmic Scouse tradition and the beautiful "Meeting Place", brilliantly enhanced by Pallett's orchestration, already sounds like an old classic. "Standing Next to Me" is genuinely exciting, "Calm Like You" is a new take on Turner's familiar style while "The Chamber" even sees him crooning. The Age of the Understatement is a fine, convincing album that proves Turner's talent is truly adaptable and marks Kane out as a talented songwriter too. --Steve Jelbert

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