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I think it's fantastic though, and their next one should be a proper classic

let's be honest, they will never ever top that first album. it doesnt help that they have all the charisma of a squashed gerbil.

second tails off a bit but still has great moments.

8/10

he is much more suited to barking out the lyrics and singing them quickly, not like the droning on this album

i for one dont understand why anyone would let josh homme near the production panel on an album - i mean qotsa are one of the most over rated bands of all time.

i hope the arctics regain some of their fire.

For me, they've got naturally worse as they've gone on. Not being a snobbish wankshaft but the EP they did early on sounded really promising. The album less so. The second album wasn't strong enough at all to hook me.

The Last Shadow Puppets are a different thing altogether. He doesn't have to worry about pleasing his audience who go for the stupid "Then we kissed, And sat on a park and got pissed" 'relateable' lyrics bullshit.

I can't even remember Crying Lightning. Honestly. The first time I heard Fake Tales of San Francisco, I couldn't get rid of it from my brain for days. The general public will agree with me. Trust. This will be their last record that anyone even mentions.

Anyhoo the problem for me with the monkeys is that their first album while good was obscenely overrated and they have had to live up to that ever since. Their 2nd album was not bad and they are crap live as they have no charisma or stage prescence.
Thta's just my thoughts.

Has something about him as a songwriter, live they are pretty bland and boring. They were fantastic when they burst onto the scene, but just dull now. I predict they will be pretty poor as headliners at Reading & Leeds, Radiohead and KOL will shit all over them.

even though they are dull, they have a much broader catalogue of bangers than the monkeys.

but despite what accusations people throw around, sex on fire, use somebody, closer, crawl or manhattan are bangers on the new album.

Probably the best thing they'll ever do is that "delighted".

the hype is disintegrating here.

I listened to it again and I was bored, very few of the tracks were listened to in full. A few nice lyrics and stuff but I'm let down, on the whole. I found myself revisiting Favourite Worst Nightmare and the later b-sides and wondering what happened.

...Future of the Left have made the best british rock album of the year by a country mile. Humbug is indifferent, muso stuff. All hail FOTL

....all look like extras out of the league of gentleman now?

They've just grown their hair to cover their embarrassed faces

nick cave cover is fucking attrocious.

it has a slight feeling of the UK's Walkmen about it, almost chilled out and relaxed to get to where they want it to go, rather than the manic urgency of the previous albums. i like it a lot.

And I am a massive Monkeys fan so maybe I just feel like I should enjoy it, but I don't think there's one bad track. I always preferred their faster stuff, but even the slower ones on Humbug have a sinisterness to them.

It's great. Clownshoes.

because it was said to sound like Nick Cave and I used to like Arctic Monkeys a few years ago before my music taste changed.

This album is pretty boring, just sounds boring and the guitar doesn't match the rest of the instruments at times, it still has that spunky sound of the other two albums whilst everything else has changed, not terrible though.

They're boring live, but the crowd brings the ruckus.

a turkey, a real stinker if you ask me. not brave just horribly boring.

But that's because it's not out in the shops yet.

You dirty, thieving pirates, you...

if the NME and John Earls only gave it 7/10. They bums them Monkeys like a gay dude bums another gay dude.

Please note -

If you do not want to read it, do not click on the link.

The review was written despite the fact - as I admit - I have not heard it. (Or any songs off it)

The review is kinda serious, but equally it is not serious.

http://wildeyemusic.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/everything-that-is-wrong-with-music/

despite all that i reckon i was spot on based on many of the posts above.

....2 albums were shite too.

is bound to be shite.

I think Humbug is damn good. Yes, some duds (Dangerous Animals?) but most of the tracks are cracking. Dance Little Liar, Pretty Visitors, Secret Door, My Propeller are some of the best things they've done. I could go on much longer.

Its hard to compare against their first two efforts, I like them each for different reasons. Its not as heavy as I expected given all the hype surrounding the JH collaboration. Its hard to tell where Mr Homme's work stops and Mr Ford's work begins. Does anyone know who produced what?

i suggest probably the shit songs are homme influenced, as he is a fat talentless wanker.

although you could comfortably add ginger to your tirade

were good albums, some of the songs were good, but this one works better as a whole

....GOOD....

Depsite being from Yorkshire, the hype is just way too much and the way they distanced themselves from doing interviews or press just smacked of trying too hard to be cool. I bought the second album on the back of all the hype and was really disappointed. 'Flourescent Adolescent' was hailed as one of the greatest tracks of our era at the time but I seen nothing special about it.

Might get it when it comes into the two for a tenner

They do seem to be sounding more like The Coral though (Nightfreak era)

Last track The Jewlers Hands is the best thing they've done in my opinion, last 1.5m are perfection

I've alway failed to see any kind of musical talent whatsoever in these young 'uns. First album was average, overhyped indie fare, second was samey, this new one puts them back where they belong (behind the McD's counter).

And God, they really are BORING.

All hype, but when you look behind it, there's not much there. I never saw the appeal in the first place and the guy's voice puts me off a little bit. Maybe they're not all that bad, but heaven - far from great either.

to be honest I thought the first album was just a tiny smidgen (is smidgen a word?) above average. Not a particularily interesting band from the outset in my humble opinion

since I've not actually listened to the last two albums, but I'm going to anyway.
The first album had six or seven genuinely incredible songs, and fortunately for them (in terms of sales) these included the singles. I watched them headline Glastonbury on the telly and thought Brianstorm was an amazing track, but the rest was phenomenally dull. Teddy Picker surely has the worst riff of all time. I saw them do the new single on the Culture Show and thought it was self indulgent nonsense.
Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys EP was good though.
But then again what do I know... I watch the Culture Show?

6 or 7 out of 10.

Definitely not shite. I think the Arctics dropping the ball is a wish which will go unfulfilled for the cynics. Sorry. If someone wasn't convinced by FWN, they ain't gonna be on board for this.

It does what it does. No more, no less. What did you want, Revolver? Doolittle? OK Computer?

Truth be told, I really expected them to morph and evolve for this un. The fact that they haven't (not really) is quite interesting.

and decided Crying Lightning is tremendous and easily the best tune on the album. It does deviate at certain points into the mediocre and there is a definite lack of killer tunes to make it a classic. 7 out of 10 is probably a fair summation. Who knows, this time next week it might have 'grown' on me as a whole...

it's their best album yet.

Here's my review: http://bit.ly/ojiLE

I think the new broodier Arctic Monkeys is a step in the right direction. I enjoyed both their previous efforts but was dubious as to whether I would enjoy a third incarnation of the same sound, different songs. For me, bands that never evolve lose my interest; if music is a reflection of the people playing it and those people develop as they age then so should their music, simple maths really. The Arctic Monkeys have consistently produced great songs (that’s why so many people love them, despite what you might think) and this album is no exception. The darker tones which accompany them show a band that is growing; it may not be everyone’s cup of tea (shut up and go and listen to something else) but it certainly is mine.

oh yeah because the dudes a poet

I hate the way that 'Crying Lightning' is such a terrible attempt at ripping off The Coral. Yes, I know that The Coral were musical magpies, but they did it with some talent and came up with something original. On their first album anyway...

Artic Monkeys = a shit coral? it's a yes.

I haven't heard the album yet but most of the reviews seem to be tepid to say the least. It's almost like no one likes the album much but they are too scared to be the first one to say it.

wank.

listened throughout a couple of times and just got bored with the overproducing and monotony of every song, nothing stands out, i am a sheffield lad and wouldn't wanna tarnish their name but this just does not deliver

...I mean, the support band tonight were some shit new start up called Them Crooked Vultures. Can't they afford a decent support band?

PS Said it before, but hey I'm nothing if not repetitive - this album will be seen as the Monkeys' crowning glory in years to come. Some of the more perceptive of us recognise it as such now, of course. Can't be arsed to look back but I'm certain most of the more vitriolic of the wankers in this thread would have said the same about albums number 1 and 2 - and, like here, would probably have prepared their response in Word a few months before release.

Thr driving force of My Propeller. (it's the song that the seven dwarfs would probably listen to nowadays before they went down the mine)
Crying Lightning (The fact that the band could have released a shitty attempt at old glory to appeal to the masses. instead they release this as a first single)
The fact that Turner has taught a generation of teenagers how to spell long winded words such as dangerous. Also the line about the lioness is going to become short hand for something.
The sixties sexiness of the secret door slamming behind them.
The breakdown in Potion Approaching, currently my favourite part of the album.
Fire and the thud has these genius fade off parts which are just grand. (Ok, it really isn't the best track on the album)
The sheer breakaway from the feel of the album with Cornerstone into guiltypleasure pop.
The drums in Dance little liar. and the fact this chappo likes it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN7EiFpiNgU
The imagery of Pretty visitors.
The organ grindery of Jewellers.

Right now I admit at times I had to scrath my head to get some of them down, but they are all valid points. my mum says so yeah?