It was inevitable that Alex Turner would incorporate the loungey swagger of his busman's holiday the Last Shadow Puppets into his main gig of the Arctic Monkeys, yet the soft louche touch of Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino comes as something of a shock.
With their basic sound intact - searing guitars, driving rhythms and sexually-charged lyrical savvy - the 11 tracks on Blood Pressures find The Kills embracing a fuller sound than on their sparse, minimalist previous album, 2008's Midnight Boom.
Night Moves return with Double Life, a soft-focus rock record shaped by hard luck and long drives. Its warmth feels earned, its coolness unforced, its rough breaks buffed into AM-gold shimmer.
Arriving after Relatives In Descent, Protomartyr's headlong dive into the morass of American life in 2017, Ultimate Success Today is a fitting follow-up for the Detroit band.
Occupying the fertile ground between organic band land and an all-electronic production project, Bob Moses draw on the two poles to vividly resonate across both
After their debut album, Arctic Monkeys returned with an EP of completely new material, breaking all marketing plans in the progress. It ranges from ultra-aggressive goth noise to the slacker-pop.
Enveloping Hopkins' journeys across geographical and cosmological spectrums, the album is an inimitable and all-embodying journey in and of itself. It's a rewarding and personal listening experience; one highly recommends indulging in without distraction.
