Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (May 11, 2018) Album • Page 48

AM is miles above any black keys album

 

They’re certainly not what they were but Brothers is a great “we’re going for it” LP and Magic Potion is just good without any qualifiers

 

I love it when bands go for it like that and succeed, Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys included.

 

@phaynes12 is hitting the nail on the head over and over
AM isn't a bad record by any stretch but it's definitely them just operating inside someone else's template

 

i think this is it for me…both bands aimed to make fun accessible albums and more than succeeded…follow ups however they went into divergent directions with Black Keys staying in that sound arena and AM taking on a totally new sound for them

 

thank you.

 

I think AM is retroactively made better by the fact that TBH&C was so fuckin wild. Like when AM came out my reaction was: "these songs are jams, but I thought the band would go in a more unique direction." In retrospect I think it rules, kinda like a really talented director making one big blockbuster and then following it up with something more nuanced and weird.

Also it can't be overstated how wild it was that they came back with TBH&C lol. They'd just had their biggest hits on their most accessible album, gained countless new fans, and then Alex Turner said "time to play a coked-up drunk lounge singer in a science fiction noir with more piano than guitar."

 

AM is Spielberg Arctic Monkeys
TBH&C is Iñárritu Arctic Monkeys

God what a stupid reddit comment I just made. lol

 

tranquility base is pretty inarguably fassbinder arctic monkeys

 

I quite enjoy reading your guys opinions on AM because of the context of the band as a whole. I love it a lot but the case could definitely be made for it being their least interesting. This band is hard to rank because they're so consistently quality

 

New song "I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am" performed today!
Insiders are saying it's NOT the lead single and that the album will be announced tomorrow.

 

someones been listening to thundercat

 

I am ready

 

hell yea. continue to kiss off all the AM only fans with an even weirder release please

 

Yessss

 

Sounds more interesting than most of TBH+C so that’s cool!

 

New album alert! https://www.arcticmonkeys.com/

 

Sweet fancy moses, AOTY is announced

 

yesssss

 

someone make a thread

 

oh yes

 

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