Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel & CasinoIt 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. Chalk it up, perhaps, to the fact that Turner was a mere 32 years old when he unleashed Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino onto the world, a young age that seems older because Arctic Monkeys released

It would be easy for the New Pornographers to sound absurdly ostentatious if it weren't for the fact there's a fiercely beating heart in the midst of their music

was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it

He's currently a full time producer and DJ

Charles Webster is revered as something like the producer's producer

while additional mellow highlights such as "Inside of Love

marks the band's greatest point of clarity in more than a decade of performing and recording

I can imagine myself singing them when I’m old

a glimpse of her raw vulnerability stripped bare of any arty concessions to the tortured psyche by which she defined herself for so many years

VINYL: 2/LP

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me

Nona Hendryx (background vocals)

Ira Kaplan