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'Crying Lightning' 1st single from 'Humbug'

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This has grown on me so much. I love how it slowly builds and builds.

The 'Your past times, consisted of the strange; and twisted and deranged' part has been stuck in my head all day! :wub:

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Down to #4 now cos of MJ.

 

Yeah it's definitely a grower Cremey. Like I keep saying when I first heard the live version I was not keen at all. I thought that 'Crying Lightning' was a departure away from their old sound, but I was listening to FWN last night and it's really not. There are some quite big similarities between Crying Lightning and If You Were There, Beware, and also This House is a Circus as well. Really excited for the album now though. Even if people aren't taken back by the new single yet, give it time to grow. And then if it still doesn't grow, then think when have Arctic Monkeys ever released the BEST song on the album as a lead single? :P Never.

Down to #4 now cos of MJ.

 

Yeah it's definitely a grower Cremey. Like I keep saying when I first heard the live version I was not keen at all. I thought that 'Crying Lightning' was a departure away from their old sound, but I was listening to FWN last night and it's really not. There are some quite big similarities between Crying Lightning and If You Were There, Beware, and also This House is a Circus as well. Really excited for the album now though. Even if people aren't taken back by the new single yet, give it time to grow. And then if it still doesn't grow, then think when have Arctic Monkeys ever released the BEST song on the album as a lead single? :P Never.

I actually disagree with you on your last point - Brianstorm was my favourite song on FWN. :P

 

I agree on everything else though. I can definitely see/hear the similarities with 'If You Were There, Beware' and 'This House is a Circus'.

 

It's doing brilliantly at the moment, much better than I thought it would be tbh! :D

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Digital Spy review:

 

Have the Arctic Monkeys changed? They recorded the majority of their new album in California rather than their hometown of Sheffield, they previewed the new material at festivals in New Zealand rather than the usual sweaty UK toilet venues, and, weirdest of all, they've become bosom buddies with bling-loving hip-hop bragger P Diddy. Surely this can't be the same band who sang about Rotherham, tracky bottoms and Frank Spencer on their iconic 2006 debut. Might fame and critical adulation have gone to their heads?

 

It takes approximately 45 seconds of this comeback track to allay such fears. Alex Turner manages to drop the words "pick 'n' mix", "strawberry lace" and "gobstopper" into the lyrics, while the band have clearly taken tips off producer Josh Homme, juicing up their formerly jaunty indie into something just as atmospheric as The Last Shadow Puppets. The swirling guitar outro and melodramatic non-chorus are the icing on this indie-rock cake. Strange but alluring, sinister but incredibly moreish, the Arctics have struck gold again

 

***** stars

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The single's entered free-fall mode on iTunes now... least it's avaliable on the offical site now, and other download outlets in the near future.
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Just seen the video now.

 

Some pretty zaney camera angles. The CGI looks pretty amatuerish - some parts it looks good, others not so much. I'm a big fan of all the colours they use though and the ginat figurines of themselves emerging from the water looks pretty cool. There's an Alex crotch-shot for the girlies too. The bits where the camera pans to show Matt holding the scope, and then the shot of him smoking a pipe worked REALLY well.

 

Pretty good video. Can definitely tell Moss directed it.

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