What happens when you take former The Little Flames member Miles Kane from Liverpool rock outfit The Rascals and add Alex Turner from some band called Arctic Monkeys? The Last Shadow Puppets, an absurdly titled band who’ll be putting the year’s most dynamic album since Vampire Weekend came calling. The Last Shadow Puppets drop The Age of the Understatement on April 21 on Domino Records.The lead single and title track sounds like what would happen if you put together a couple of bright sparks of indie rock with the London Metropolitan Orchestra. Actually, this is precisely what it is. The end result is a dance track of epic proportions with orchestral and choral arrangements more befitting of a movie score than a rock album. Even Morrissey couldn’t work with an orchestra as well as these two lads have. The percussion drives like thunder. The production lends itself to the feel of a fine concert hall. It all falls together and resembles a bombastic orchestral version of almost any track from Favourite Worst Nightmare.
The groove may be Arctic Monkeys, but the feel is much different. It’s lusher and richer in texture than anything either Kane or Turner have put out with any band. It’s just an auditory nugget of goodness.
- Garrett Lyons
The Last Shadow Puppets - "The Age of the Understatement"
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