The Arctic Monkeys are back and Jesus H Christ, doesn't anybody who listens to Radio 1 know it. Jo Whiley played the new single "Crying Lightning" twice on Tuesday and since then i think every daytime show has been duty bound to play it. For those of us who like to have the radio on in the background all day, its getting interminable. If it were not an Arctic Monkeys single, it wouldn't be getting played at all, let alone every two hours. It sounds like a watered down QOTSA backing track (thanks to Josh Homme's production) with a watered down Alex Turner vocal over the top. Worst of all, Turner is verging towards a worrying mid-lantic accept from his native South Yorkshire twang. Whilst that may have been at home on the Last Shadow Puppets album, it just sounds banal here.
I think the moral of this tale is not to worship the output of a band just because of who they are. If they're recorded something that is shit, don't play it just because the band is fashionable. Likewise, don't ignore something good because a band isn't fashionable. And most importantly, a song isn't brilliant just because it has been used on an Apple commercial.
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