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The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets Format: Audio CD

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1	The Age of the Understatement
2	Standing Next to Me
3	Calm Like You
4	Separate and Ever Deadly
5	The Chamber
6	Only the Truth
7	My Mistakes Were Made for You
8	Black Plant
9	I Don't Like You Any More
10	In My Room
11	The Meeting Place
12	Time Has Come Again

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The Age Of The Understatement is the debut album from The Last Shadow Puppets, a project by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and long-time friends Miles Kane of The Rascals and James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco. It is an album of 12 full-blooded songs, bold and brassy, full of drama, wit and melody, that source the past but avoid falling into pastiche.

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Famous for demonstrating how less is more when it comes to publicity, it comes as no surprise that The Age of the Understatement, the first side project from Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, should appear to no great fanfare. The Last Shadow Puppets are Turner and Miles Kane, formerly of Monkeys tourmates The Little Flames and now in the Rascals, aided by producer (and here, drummer) James Ford, also of Simian Mobile Disco. Inspired by the widescreen orchestral Sixties pop of Scott Walker and legendary arranger David Axelrod, they enlisted the London Metropolitan Orchestra under the aegis of Canadian Owen Pallett (aka Final Fantasy and an erstwhile member of the Arcade Fire's string section). The result is entirely successful, owing as much to the romanticism of Richard Hawley and the eclectic approach of the Coral as any sixties precursors. The thundering title track is pure Scott though, "I Don't Like You Anymore" is twisted pop in the best Cosmic Scouse tradition and the beautiful "Meeting Place", brilliantly enhanced by Pallett's orchestration, already sounds like an old classic. "Standing Next to Me" is genuinely exciting, "Calm Like You" is a new take on Turner's familiar style while "The Chamber" even sees him crooning. The Age of the Understatement is a fine, convincing album that proves Turner's talent is truly adaptable and marks Kane out as a talented songwriter too. --Steve Jelbert

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.88 x 5.59 x 0.43 inches; 2.82 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Domino Record Co.
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 3926063
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2008
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ March 19, 2008
Label ‏ : ‎ Domino Record Co.
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0015UKX7Y
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #81,164 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,691 in Indie Rock
- #7,631 in Alternative Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #36,223 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)

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Everybody knows Alex Turner

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2024

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Great album. Great addition for any fan of The Arctic Monkeys and Alex Turner. Love hearing this on vinyl.

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Best album ever

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2023

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Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2023

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Anything TLSP is absolutely a must have! Cd arrived in great condition and fast!

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Elan Bodwick

Orchestral spaghetti western pop epics!

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2008

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Yeah its purely late 60s orchestral pop yeah its Morricone meets Scott Walkers 4 album- Yeah its Loves "alone again or" meets "Andy warhol" by David Bowie. Yeah its easy to hear who these two are paying homage to but simply put its brilliant. There are songs here that have such great hooks great orchestration and blissful energy especially the one two punch of "The age of the understatement" and "Standing next to me". In the new millenium this is just to obscure or retro to really capture a generation of kids raised on emo and bad radio rock. If you know your music history and dig the idea of Morricone jamming with british pop hooks with a 60s bent then this is something you must get immediately, I happen to love this - the drumming is fantastic the almost spanish styled acoustic guitars colliding with twangy western style guitar lines just hits all the right spots. The vocals from Artic monkeys frontman(?) Alex Turner and the lyrics all conjure some sort of urban Western. Despite being retro this is beefed up and alittle tougher than the 60s variety that ive mentioned and its all an improvement in my eyes. This is one of those records thats great while driving on a hot summer day with a long road ahead of you. One of the best records of the last ten years.

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S. G. Lake

Action, Adventure, Suspense, Romance!This is one of the best albums I've bought in a long time, and it's been

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2012

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About a month ago I was listening to an internet radio station when
I heard a song that made me bolt out of my chair and head straight
for the computer to discover just who this great artist was.The song
was, "Standing Next To Me", by "The Last Shadow Puppets".I then went
straight over to Amazon to buy the album.
Alex Turner and Miles Kane rank up there with some of the greatest
singing duos of all time, such as The Everly Brothers, Chad And Jeremy,
Peter And Gordon, & Dwight Twilley And Phil Seymour.Their voices blend together
perfect and seamlessly.very much reminds me of a classic 1960s movie soundtrack, with a plot like,
Have you seen any of the videos that support this album? Pure genius!
Like scenes from a movie that should be made someday.Actually, this album

"A dashingly handsome singing duo gets caught up in Cold War intrigue and
espionage!".in my player in regular rotation since it arrived.
I sincerely hope that these two talented young men continue writing together,
and maybe even starring in "that movie" someday along with scoring the soundtrack.
I see a bright & successful future for these two young gentlemen!
OH! And I must add, these two have the most amazing fashion sense! I can see why they
are style icons in the UK, they're absolutely gorgeous!

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Mateo

Almost Sublime

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2012

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It reminds me of the Righteous Brothers, just a bit. Okay, they're not quite there, but some of the songs hit violin-swollen peaks of emotion that leave you wanting more, that leave you remembering songs you haven't thought about since the 1960s--and about how those songs left you with a promise of emotional ecstasy that has yet to be fulfilled. Some of the songs come across as stylized bachelor pad pieces--cool for bachelor pads, or cafes, or inevitably by coolness-co-opting mall stores, but not for serious listening. A couple of the songs do little. Yet there is more than enough here to suggest that this band could go further. When the Starbucks track rotation feeling dissipates, and the band endeavors to create something more thematically coherent and powerful--something that proceeds from, say, melancholy city life to break-up in the melancholy city, rather than, say, from Dr. Zhivago to James Bond--the band will be serious contenders for track rotation at my no-longer bachelor pad. I really dig this effort musically, lyrically, stylistically, but I hope they will push themselves harder to create something more than just a collection of 3:13 minute semi-statements: an overarching statement with thoughts and feelings that coalesce into a statement on life that will be begged to be listened to, analyzed, appreciated, and experienced over and over again.

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David Sheridan

What an amazing talent

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2008

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Several reviews previously posted cite all of the obvious direct influences - Scott Walker, Ennio Morricone, Love's "Forever Changes" and more, all valid comparisons but more importantly (taken with the Arctic Monkeys), evidence of the breadth and depth of Alex Turner's pop instincts. We could be watching a new Elvis Costello, a new Damon Albarn, a new Ray Davies...he has that much stylistic integrity, showing signs of absorbing different genres like a chameleon, has such impressive songwriting chops. I simply can't wait to see what he comes up with next, I just think that it'll be a masterful, mature work and will be the last thing we would have expected. This guy's only in his early 20's; the only artist I ever recall bursting onto the scene this young with such advanced songwriting skills was Roddy Frame.

This album manages to be grand and intimate at the same time, it flows well and has no weak song. It's easy for symphonic pop to sound overproduced, but this never falls into that trap, in fact it never loses its singer-songwriter feel, and the songs would probably all sound great if it was just him and an acoustic guitar. Possibly the best LP of 2008.

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