The Oedipus Project
5 years later we now have a new Arctic Monkeys album.
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is a gorgeous new direction for the band and to my ear a very Bowiesque turn.
Listen here to the first track Star Treatment (with a classic line “I just wanted to be one of the Stokes, now look at the mess you made me make…”) and the new single Four Out of Five.
Star Treatment
Four Out of Five
Expect a new Arctic Monkeys in early September.
AM will be their 5th.
“Do I Wanna Know?” is the current single.
The video for “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?”
Arctic Monkeys are one of those British bands with attitude. But the band does live up to the hype.
Their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, released in 2006, became the fastest selling debut album in UK history and featured the singles “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” and “When the Sun Goes Down”.
Suck It and See, the fourth Arctic Monkeys album is due in June.
The powerful “Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved You’re Chair” is the first single.
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The band The xx were just named the winners of the 2010 Mercury Prize awarded for the best album by a UK or Irish band. Established in 1992, Primal Scream’s Screamadelica took home the initial award. Other winners have included Suede, Portishead, Pulp, Badly Drawn Boy, PJ Harvey, Dizzee Rascal, Franz Ferdinand, Antony and the Johnsons, Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons and Elbow. Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Foals, Paul Weller, Dizzee Rascal, Corinne Bailey Rae and Wild Beasts were among this year’s nominees. The trio receives £20,000. “Crystalised” and “Islands” are two singles from The xx debut album xx, plus the song “Infinity” a personal fave.
“Crystalised”
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“Islands”
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“Infinity”
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In support of their upcoming tour, Arctic Monkeys have released “My Propeller” as their new featured track from their 3rd album Humbug.
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“My Propeller”
