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The Age of the Understatement
When I look at pictures of Alex Turner and Miles Kane together, I can’t help but think their new band was some idea thought up after a night of heavy drinking and strip poker.
Firstly there are the people that see Turner finally stepping out into the limelight to lap up the celebrity lifestyle, and cash in on his success with the Monkeys’ by releasing a duet album with his new best mate. Then there are also the people that think Kane is using this project to stir up some interest for his in-hype but struggling for popularity band The Rascals.
However, when you throw all those equations out of the window and take the time to sit down and listen to their debut album, that’s when you can start making comparisons to the great duos of music history.
Their debut single 'The Age of the Understatement' was released this week in the run up to the release of their debut album, also named The Age of the Understatement.
Firstly I'd like to point out, that its in no way similar to any of the past new 'indie-band' music thats been chocking out airwaves over the past couple of years. Its fresh, its poppy and its downright brilliant, but its also just very darn British. I doubt I'd ever see Dave Grohl teaming up with Brandon Flowers, to create a dipiction of the changes of music in America over the past thirty to fourty years to be honest. Musical duo's are just very British. Think of Lennon and McCartney, Ike and Tina Turner, The Everly Brothers; Their just a handful of some of the great duos of the past. Although it may take most people to cotton onto the idea, or for the Monkeys' to take over America and for The Rascals to create a masterpiece album; before most people really know who they truly are. I mean if Damon Albern and Noel Gallager were to put aside their differences of the past and make a duet album right now, Matt Bellamy and Thom Yorke were to do the same, then the world would shit a solid black brick of holy terd on George Bush's oval office desk!
Now that that explananation has gotten out of the way I can concentrate on ripping apart this little treat of a tune, that clocks in at just over three minutes flat. The vocals are bright and edgy, the guitar work is sublime and the drumming is second to none. Turner and Kane's vocals play off of each other like a a beautiful symthony played along to the nutcracker. Think of how well Chemical Brother's 'Electrobank' was played out to Sofia Coppola's amazing gymnastics; this is right up there.
Riding high in the charts within the top 10 this week, its set the album a high bench mark to pass, but I'm confident the album can do an even better job!
The Age of the Understatement
When I look at pictures of Alex Turner and Miles Kane together, I can’t help but think their new band was some idea thought up after a night of heavy drinking and strip poker.
Firstly there are the people that see Turner finally stepping out into the limelight to lap up the celebrity lifestyle, and cash in on his success with the Monkeys’ by releasing a duet album with his new best mate. Then there are also the people that think Kane is using this project to stir up some interest for his in-hype but struggling for popularity band The Rascals.
However, when you throw all those equations out of the window and take the time to sit down and listen to their debut album, that’s when you can start making comparisons to the great duos of music history.
Their debut single 'The Age of the Understatement' was released this week in the run up to the release of their debut album, also named The Age of the Understatement.
Firstly I'd like to point out, that its in no way similar to any of the past new 'indie-band' music thats been chocking out airwaves over the past couple of years. Its fresh, its poppy and its downright brilliant, but its also just very darn British. I doubt I'd ever see Dave Grohl teaming up with Brandon Flowers, to create a dipiction of the changes of music in America over the past thirty to fourty years to be honest. Musical duo's are just very British. Think of Lennon and McCartney, Ike and Tina Turner, The Everly Brothers; Their just a handful of some of the great duos of the past. Although it may take most people to cotton onto the idea, or for the Monkeys' to take over America and for The Rascals to create a masterpiece album; before most people really know who they truly are. I mean if Damon Albern and Noel Gallager were to put aside their differences of the past and make a duet album right now, Matt Bellamy and Thom Yorke were to do the same, then the world would shit a solid black brick of holy terd on George Bush's oval office desk!
Now that that explananation has gotten out of the way I can concentrate on ripping apart this little treat of a tune, that clocks in at just over three minutes flat. The vocals are bright and edgy, the guitar work is sublime and the drumming is second to none. Turner and Kane's vocals play off of each other like a a beautiful symthony played along to the nutcracker. Think of how well Chemical Brother's 'Electrobank' was played out to Sofia Coppola's amazing gymnastics; this is right up there.
Riding high in the charts within the top 10 this week, its set the album a high bench mark to pass, but I'm confident the album can do an even better job!
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