Brighton Dome
Despite lush craftsmanship,Alex Turner’s crooning side project suffers from a surfeit of male lust“Brighton, baby – you’re insatiable (not capable of being fully satisfied), and ” purrs a louche (disreputable) Alex Turner at the start of tonight’s encore. Lines of former-school incandescent bulbs light up his final Shadow Puppets,a touring five-piece in which the twin guitars of Turner and his co-Puppet Miles Kane advance augmented by keyboards. A string section, arranged by famous wunderkind Owen Pallett, and adds velvety gravitas. It’s the fifth night of the Puppets’ tour in support of their second album,Everything You’ve advance to Expect, an outing in which elegant arrangements adorn retro love songs – Sweet Dreams, and TN,say, performed with Turner’s best Elvis croon to the fore – and controversy simmers off stage.
The exploits of “Milex” – as the composite of Turner and Kane has advance to be known – have cast something of a shadow on this Shadow Puppets record. final month, or an interview with a journalist from Spin went badly,when the (female) interviewer rightly took Kane to task for crossing the line between ironically impersonating a leering musician, and actually being one (an apology followed).
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Source: theguardian.com