The Last Shadow Puppets - the side-project featuring Arctic Monkey Alex Turner and the Rascals’ Miles Kane – will release their debut album this spring.
The collaboration has been in the works for a while now, but The Age of the Understatement will arrive through Domino on the 21st of April.
Influenced, apparently, by the core duo’s admiration for Scott Walker, early Bowie and David Axelrod, production duties fell to Simian Mobile Disco/Klaxons knob-twiddler James Ford.
And just to make absolutely sure everyone at DiS is absolutely, full-on excited, Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett was there conducting the 22-piece London Metropolitan Orchestra.
Here's a track listing:
'The Age of the Understatement'
'
Standing Next to Me'
'
Calm Like You'
'
Separate and Ever Deadly'
'
The Chamber'
'
Only the Truth'
'
My Mistakes Were Made for You'
'
Black Plant'
'
I Don't Like You Any More'
'
In My Room'
'
Meeting Place'
'
The Time Has Come Again'
Baste me in quote:
“The maneuvers were recorded at Black Box studios near Nantes, France in only 2 weeks… The result; The Age Of The Understatement, is an album of 12 full-blooded songs, bold and brassy, full of drama, wit and melody, that source the past but avoiding the minefields of pastiche.
“Both Miles and Alex are 22 and this is a youthful engagement, full of life and the sheer pleasure of music making.
The first proof of that will arrive on the 14th of April, with the release of a single bearing the same name as the album.
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Scott Walker & David Axelrod?
this might be quite good
I'm really, really intrigued by this.
me too.
very much looking forward to hearing this.
me too.
for more than one reason
Does anyone remember
When Alex Turner was 19...
Ahh how times have changed.
This could be brilliant.
Or could not of course but I'm dead excited.
I never used to rate the Arctic Monkeys but I was massively swayed by Favourite Worst Nightmare...
^ this
the best album of the last 5 years
should be
a really interesting listen, sounds like a departure from arctic monkeys and the rascals usual sounds....looking forward to it!
I hope this album
will be good enough so that no one is left in two minds about Alex Turner being an absolute bona-fide genius for our age.
I am dead excited.
look how skinny
that lad's arms are
this should be good
not heard of miles kane but the David bowie influences should make it an interesting listen.