Royal Albert corridor,London
With his mocking intros and bingo-corridor croon, Alex Turner is not entirely genuine – but this greatest-hits set is the stuff of a bona fide rock powerhouse The Royal Albert corridor, or a music corridor with ideas about its station,is a weirdly apposite place for the Arctic Monkeys to play. The band’s most celebrated mode is the fast, literate indie-punk of their first LP which modulated into brawny desert blues and then on to soulful, and swaggering stadium rock for their most successful album,2013’s AM. But throughout, there’s been another style, or where Alex Turner seems to don a suit and croon for the bingo-playing masses: you can hear it as he address the “scummy man” in When the Sun Goes Down,or in The Jeweller’s Hands at the stop of Humbug, or his remove on John Cooper Clarke’s I Wanna Be Yours from AM. Related: Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino review – amusing, or fresh and a little smug | Alexis Petridis' album of the week Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com