Arctic Monkeys - The Car

‘Hurrah, Arctic Monkeys are back!’

‘This is rubbish, I want the previous version of Arctic Monkeys back.’

…has basically been the commentary of certain fans upon every release by the group, barring second album Favourite Worst Nightmare, which bore enough resemblance to their seminal debut to pass their muster.

Better still, there are now two generations of fans (those that were enthralled by Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not and the newer breed who jumped aboard for AM) who can rage together.

The clue was in the first album title, people.

Fortunately, Alex Turner and his friends don’t care, never have and nor should they; they are artists, and art by democracy isn’t a viable concept.

Yet there was some allowance made for the sci-fi lounge jazz of previous album Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino in the hope that it was a one-off and they’d soon come back to the rollicking R&B riffs of AM. Not a bit of it.

While they haven’t exactly doubled down (The Car is, if nothing else, more accessible than its predecessor), they’ve moved on yet again.

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