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 This record left our BRIAN D feeling unmoved.
The Last Shadow Puppets are the laddie from the Rascals and the chappie from t' Arctic Monkeys. 'The Age of the Understatement' is a Shadows-esque romp through 60's counter culture. String laden & dramatic, it is indeed the sound of two men not only obsessed with Sergio Leone films & Morricone soundtracks but probably a little taken with the fashion of the day IE flowery mini skirts & thigh length leather boots.....and slinky, vampish eye make-up.....and Carnaby Street.....and old James Bond films.....and Scott Walker.....and The Avengers.....and lava lamps. Anyone got any retro tastic sentance enhancers drop us a line. This is actually tons better than most of the soul sapping 60's pastiche dross that is flooding the market today (hullo Duffy....) but just smells like the armpits of a marketing man's cocaine 'n' $ laden dream. Ltd 7"s & CDs
What the label says:
RUG288CD
The Age Of The Understatement
Two Hearts In Two Weeks
Wondrous Place
7” - RUG288
The Age Of The Understatement
Two Hearts In Two Weeks
7” - RUG288X
The Age Of The Understatement
In The Heat Of The Morning
The Arctic Monkeys and The Rascals frontmen team up to create a superb oeuvre of faded beauty and songwriting craftsmanship. This is as good as it gets this year.
The Last Shadow Puppets are Alex Turner (from Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane (from The Rascals). Firm friends ever since Arctic Monkeys toured with Kane’s previous group The Little Flames, the pair were so inspired by listening to the likes of Scott Walker, early David Bowie and David Axelrod that they hatched a plan.
The Last Shadow Puppets recorded at Black Box studios near Nantes, France in two weeks during the summer of 2007, with producer and drummer James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco). The band then approached Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) to arrange and conduct the orchestration of the tracks, which were recorded by the 22 piece London Metropolitan Orchestra at British Grove studios in London over Christmas. The track is a majestic masterpiece where the two voices, intertwined in harmony, form the canvas for a story centred around this one heartbreaker of a girl. The sweeping strings underscore the song and build up a very scenic and dramatic background to the Ennio Morricone styled guitars. It’s an uncontrollable race, an emotional whirlwind, a poignant rush to the head.
The B-sides gather songs with a wide range of influences dating mainly from the 1960’s. Here, the band cover ‘A Wondrous Place’, a song originally Billy Fury, who went to Number 28 in the charts with it in September 1960. The second 7” features an early Bowie cover ‘In The Heat Of The Morning’ which is completely exclusive.
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