The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect
- Written by Fran Sad
From the very first notes of 'Aviation', the title of the album makes perfect sense. It's like the eight years between The Age Of Understatement of Everything You've Come To Expect had just been erased at a snap or a magic word, bringing us directly back to 2008.
Continuing the reunion with the delicate 'Align Miracle' and on a more languid title named 'Dracula Teeth' (which seems pulled straight from the Seventies), the album does not lie about its content. This is also the main quality and the limit established by the draft Alex Turner and Miles Kane, in their thirties now continue to propose a music they have never really known much less experienced, being both born in 1986.
One might find it all a bit pompous and useless if our two lads were not also the singer of Arctic Monkeys and singer of The Rascals, two British bands (especially the first, Miles Kane is now solo) having quite awakened the British rock sound at the end of the last decade.
However, if the lover of rare melodies and sophisticated harmonies (not counting those sick arrangements) will find his account, this new album has been once again produced as a piece of jewelry, it must still recognize (after several careful listens) that barely find the state of grace of its predecessor, turning somewhat round we offer securities without disappoint, fail completely to take away our enthusiasm. The whole remains a sidereal class, but it's not as catchy and exciting as in the past.
Fault? It's silly, almost inevitable as it is a question of the age of the performers. Our two young gifted 22 years have given way to beautiful young men now playing the big shots on press photos, vainly trying to appear older than they are. To say that this is more by their attitude than their age they failed (the term is a little strong) to make this sequel a Sixties cathedral, it is a shortcut that I will venture not to take; especially given the crass mediocrity of the current competition. Even at 50% capacity, The Last Shadow Puppets remain well above the fray.
Syndicated from Disques, Films, Comics, Mangas et Bubble Gum.
Everything You've Come To Expect is available from amazon & iTunes.