Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (May 11, 2018) Album • Page 35

Still might be my favorite of 2018.

 

it’s incredible

 

Yep - I took a nice break from it and revisited last week and now it's back into consistent rotation

 

Top 5 album for 2018

 

The info on genius.com about "Star Treatment" triggered my obsession with this album. So many references packed into this thing it's unreal.

 

Alex’s lyrics are great that way

 

It's gloomy and kinda rainy out so I went for a nice walk and listened to this, felt really nice. This album is fantastic

 

This album really is great

 

One of the best of the year. Absolutely came out of nowhere for me.

 

have you not been a fan in the past?

 

I don't know if I've heard another album of theirs in full. We definitely played "R U Mine?" and "Do I Wanna Know?" on my university's station when I worked there, and my roommate owned that record, but I always kind of categorized them with The Black Keys and other garage/blues-rock stuff. The Leonard Cohen/FJM comparisons I saw floating around this record are what made me seek it out

 

you should check out humbug

 

I'll check that out next and report back!

 

All of AM albums are great

 

Oh shit...I don't know how I've gone this long without it ever once crossing my mind that AM is just named after the band's initials. I always just thought of it like morning time.

 

The cover of AM also has the letters AM in the middle. Took me awhile to notice that

 

the band’s initials and AM radio seemed most obvious to me

 

It's a rip-off and/or allusion to Velvet Underground's "VU"

 

Oh wow you’re right, I’d never noticed that before

 

This is a pretty fair assumption to make. My older brother got into Suck It and See big time but absolutely hated AM because it was so generic and safe.

This band is so cool though. They have this monster commercial success with AM, tour the shit out of it, and then return with Tranquility Base, probably the farthest possible sounding album you can get from AM. Whatever people say they are, that's what they're not.

 

I remember when I first heard AM. I told someone they ripped off Black Keys’ sound from Brother’s so hard. Came to find out later that AM toured w/ BK before making AM and “fell in love” with BK’s sound. AM even used the same engineer - Brian Lucey - to master the record since he did BK’s Brothers.

AM is great.

 

The B-side "Anyways" is very solid

 

Is this it? Doesn't sound like Alex

 

No. Check the description. It's this, slowed down:

 

Is it available somewhere?