Reedy in his suit and sunglasses, it is easy to see glimpses of Bob Dylan (who is a fan) in Turner when he’s performing with every flick of the wrists as he laments space gentrification on Four Stars Out of Five, there’s a shadow of David Byrne too. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Thankfully, he also ditched the word salad that distracted on Tranquility, which featured lyrics like “swamp monster with a hard on for connectivity” and “(She looks like fun) Good morning / (She looks like fun) Cheeseburger.” Some critics kindly called it inscrutable. “Rather than strings on top of rock, I was interested in switching the ‘rock band’ bit on and off,” Turner recently told the Guardian about the new album. Now we’re in The Car era of Arctic Monkeys, which stays on the same road as Tranquility: slower, smoother, jazzier. Thankfully, gone too is the cosmic weirdness of Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, a jazz-inflected concept album centred around a resort on the moon that confounded some fans. Gone is in the indie snarling of their early albums, and the greaser slickness of AM. Almost 20 years on and six albums later, the band understandably now sounds very different. This tour is “very sold out”, the promoter says beforehand Australians have loved Arctic Monkeys since they crashed on to Triple J with I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor back in 2006.
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