please...

 

Sent! ^_^

the Age of The Understatement is coming...92%...;)

really good

I think it's an amazing song and the video is EPIC. Quite clearly the record company believe this project is going to be huge as they've obviously spent a shedload on the video. Best description I've read of the sound of the song is Muse playing a Bond theme in a country and western style! Incidentally, The Times agree with the Bond theme theory:

 

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle3498786.ece

 

WE SAY: A furious gallop of drums, guitars and strings from start to finish, this stands shoulder to shoulder with the widescreen drama of Scott Walker's Jackie. If the Broccolis are still looking for someone to do the James Bond theme tune, they need look no further.

sounds like the coral (first album) doin "Knights Of Cydonia" (muse) for a bond film...

its amazing that it only lasts for 2:55!!!

The video's been added to some music channels now! :D

Is up the Radio 1 C-list this week!

 

And is also Jo Whiley's Pet Sound (record of the week) for this week. ^_^ I'm pretty sure it is anyway. :lol:

Great song!! very different not what i was expecting at all :o amazing video aswell :wub:

n the lyrics are great too

Listening to it again for a few times, it's really starting to grow on me. :P :wub:

Alex Turner and Miles Kane have announced the details for their debut release as The Last Shadow Puppets.

 

The Arctic Monkeys and The Rascals will release single 'The Age Of The Understatement' on April 14.

 

The single will be backed by new song 'Two Hearts In Two Weeks' plus two covers.

 

The pair have done David Bowie’s 'In The Heat Of The Morning' and Billy Fury’s 'Wondrous Place'.

 

An album, also called 'The Age Of The Understatement', then follows on April 21.

 

Source: NME.com

 

Seeing the tracklisting makes me think this is a good bet for #1 now. :P :w00t: Should be good to hear the covers!

On the first 1 or 2 listens I wasn't keen but it's really grown on me now

 

Can't wait to see what the rest of the album sounds like

3 more songs!

 

'Two Hearts In Two Weeks'

 

David Bowie’s 'In The Heat Of The Morning'

 

and Billy Fury’s 'Wondrous Place'

 

!!!

 

it s gettin better n better!!!

Up to the Radio 1 B-list now! :D

Sunday March 16, 2008

The Observer

 

 

The Last Shadow Puppets are a band with two lead singers. As one of them is Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, that might point to an uneven balance of power between the two. But listening to the less familiar voice of Miles Kane (mainstay of Wirral-based up-and-comers the Rascals) snapping at Turner's heels throughout the headlong gallop of their thrillingly opulent and dynamic debut single, 'The Age of the Understatement', it seems this particular job-share is strictly 50/50.

 

'There's nothing innocent about Miles Kane,' Turner warns, in case anyone was planning to accuse him of luring his fresh-faced co-conspirator into a decadent world of rock star self-indulgence. 'He is the antithesis of innocence.' 'Ooh,' Kane retorts, archly, 'you scampi fry.'

Tucking into their sandwiches in a quiet alcove of a Wapping riverside pub, these two 22-year-olds could easily be twins. 'I suppose we are quite symmetrical today,' says Turner, pondering their complementary wardrobes (close-fitting leather jackets, black jeans and pointy boots).

 

'We're both only children,' says Kane, 'and we've got similar mothers as well.' The first time they stayed at each other's houses, they realised they even ate 'the same little chocolates - Breakaways... Blue Ribands'.

 

Soon this mutual affinity for biscuity nourishment expanded into a shared love of the way Scott Walker's 'Jackie' 'filled the senses'. And this well-matched duo began to wonder what would happen if they took a break from their day jobs and tried to make a record that exuded the same sense of grandeur. 'Rather than waiting till our early thirties to do a collaboration like that,' Kane says, 'we thought, "Let's do it while we're still really young, so there's a different energy behind all the drama."'

 

A different energy is one attribute the resulting album, The Age of the Understatement, can certainly be credited with. Having invited Arctic Monkeys producer James Ford to play the drums, then handed Arcade Fire helpmeet Owen Pallett the conductor's baton and told him they wanted strings that weren't too 'forest-y', Turner and Kane have created a marvellously expansive tribute to the excitement of the big city and the allure of the sophisticated female.

 

Gleefully oblivious to the florid legacy of previous attempts to channel the genius of Scott Walker, the Last Shadow Puppets have made an implausibly direct connection with the swinging Sixties mother lode. In fact, if Billy Liar had only had the balls to actually get on that train to London and persuade John Barry to help him make an album about how much Julie Christie meant to him, The Age of the Understatement is roughly what it might have sounded like.

 

· The single, 'The Age of the Understatement', is out on 14 April (Domino) and the album on 21 April

 

http://music.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2264342,00.html

no verdict?

The video's definitely on The Box now! ^_^

Everytime I watch the video I cnan't help but thinking they're a nice little gay couple :lol:

 

The song is GREAT.

ALEX TURNER has swapped booze and birds for tear-jerking break-up songs on his new album.

 

The ARCTIC MONKEYS frontman has collaborated with THE RASCALS singer MILES KANE on The Age Of The Understatement. I’ve had an exclusive listen and here’s my review.

 

The duo have named their outfit THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS and have produced a brooding and intensely personal set of songs.

 

The 12-track collection clocks in at just 34 minutes but packs an emotional punch.

 

The tales of hi-jinx that filled both Monkeys albums are absent.

 

Almost every track is full of heartbreak and heartache. One of my favourites is Separate And Ever Deadly, a spooky march with gloomy church bells where Miles screams: “Can’t you see I’m a ghost in the wrong coat biting butter and crumbs.”

 

 

Meeting Place is the most emotional track and describes the pain of a relationship in meltdown.

 

It sounds like it’s influenced by Alex’s split with ex Johanna Bennett before he got together with current girlfriend, TV presenter ALEXA CHUNG.

 

Turner and Kane have produced a beautiful, mature and occasionally harrowing album.

 

And that’s no understatement at all.

 

Source: The Sun

Great song!! am waiting til it grows on me