Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
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Artist: Arctic MonkeysEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Music Label: Domino
Soundtracks:
- Brianstorm
- Teddy Picker
- D Is For Dangerous
- Balaclava
- Fluorescent Adolescent
- Only Ones Who Know
- Do Me A Favour
- This House Is A Circus
- If You Were There, Beware
- The Bad Thing
- Old Yellow Bricks
- 505
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Music Review: Favourite Worst Nightmare
Rating: 5 Stars
This album is proof that there is no such thing as "the sophomore curse." I believe that the sophomore album is where the band fixes the mistakes they made on their debut, and that's exactly what the Arctic Monkeys did. This album was much more art-rock and experimental than their chart-topping debut, 2006's Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, and that's exactly what I look for in a band. The album kicks off with a bang with "Brianstorm" and stays strong until track 6, "Only Ones Who Know," the low point of the album. I'm not saying I don't like slower songs, but I still don't think the Monkeys can pull them off. Last album they disappointed me with "Mardy Bum" and "Riot Van" and I can't say "505" is that much better. But aside from those two tracks, the album is strong from start to finish with smart lyrics, twanging guitars, and fast drum rhythms. (They also get bonus points for having an album cover that really catches your eye, unlike their debut that has that guy that looks like Adam Sandler smoking...)
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While this sophomore release is unmistakably Arctic Monkeys, everything's a little more muscular and aggressive. Each song is embedded with revelatory moments, as if some sort of critical mass is achieved through skillful song craft and sharp arrangements until an explosive release of energy or emotion is inevitable. Arctic Monkeys have exceeded expectations with this record.Snarly and stone-sharpened, the Arctic Monkeys open their sophomore effort with "Brianstorm," a bracing blast of guitar fractures and rhythmic herky-jerks. Alex Turner's voice is the centerpiece, scoured the way the Streets' Mike Skinner's quick. Favourite Worst Nightmare moves from frontal blast quickly to the lean, mid-paced pop nugget, "Teddy Picker," which even with its clear guitars and straight rhythms still has Turner's tart intonation piercing the air. The tugging bass and guitar of "Fluorescent Adolescent" show shades of the retro-soul tip that drives Amy Winehouse (and Lily Allen), showing that the Arctic Monkeys have a taste for the dancefloor that spans generations, even if their guitars can cut across each other with relentless jaggedness while Turner's caustic pipes lasso the ears. Nightmare expands the band's reach, as when "Do Me a Favour" goes wonderfully haywire from tumbling rhythm, clear-guitar, and fluid narrative to a cresting blast of guitars--big and brawny and borne from the merely tumultuous, like the band itself. --Andrew Bartlett
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