Arctic Monkeys - Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair

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3...according to our Dave on Thu 26 May, 2011.

Everybody's favourite pie and peas quaffing, flat cap wearing Yorkshire tykes are back with a new single that sounds more like QOTSA or summat. It's a sort of heavy mid-paced affair is this one. They seem to be more of an American rock band nowadays. When you listen to 'em , they sound more Desert Sessions than Sheffield Steel. Its not too bad and Alex Turner can still spin an interesting yarn as a storyteller. The band sound as tight as ermmm...a ferret in a rabbit hole (or something else that's stereotypically Yorkshire). The flip side for me was more enjoyable. It's called I.D.S.T and it powers along on a solid bass led groove also sounding well Josh Homme. As solid as you like (or expect) single from a band that used to remind me of George Formby...now they remind me of George of the (urban) Jungle. I don't know what that means but hey who gives a frog's fat ass...

· Brand new single from Arctic Monkeys featuring
‘Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair’ plus
two brand new and exclusive studio recordings –
‘I.D.S.T.’ on the 7” and also ‘The Blond-O-Sonic
Shimmer Trap’ on the 10”.

· Both formats will be pressed on heavyweight vinyl
and will be strictly limited to 2000 per format,
never again to be repressed.

Lox said:

If ever the law of diminishing returns applied, it's certainly true of Arctic Monkeys. Where their first album told stories, there are certainly no longer any stories. Mind you, I suppose it's hard to tell stories about being a millionnaire. Except, say, where to source a packet of 'flat cakes' or 'oven bottoms' in California.

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