Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Bonjour!!!!

Not really sure what to say about this album, but all I know is I've got some things to say, some of them good some of them not so good.

First of all let's just start off by saying, we all know i adore arctic monkeys,and have done for a ridiculous amount of years (13 years to be precise) and again I'm all for artists,progressing and exploring different paths,and getting better at what they do, like look at Kendrick for example as he ever made a bad album? The answer is no.
But honestly this album is just a bit dare i say it shit. I'm not denying that its definitely umm interesting and I'm intrigued none the less, but its just a bit shit,and I'm kind of really sad about it, wow never thought those words would come out of my mouth when talking about an arctic monkeys album, first time for everything hey?

Again let me just say, that the music is so incredible,and gives me a proper heavy melancholy summer vibe which I love, and of course the majority of the lyrics are also incredible,because like i have said on many occasions, Alex turner is one talented musician,(hitchhiking with a monogrammed suitcase,miles away from any half-useful imaginary highway FUCKING GENIUS LYRICS SERIOUSLY) but unlike all of their other albums, the music and the lyrics don't add up like they usually do,and I can't work out why, is it because it feels like a five year long follow up of AM?, you can't deny there are massive similarities,between the both of them, like as anyone noticed that the ultracheese is just a bit of a ballad version of number 1 party anthem?

Although not all my opinions on this album are negative or ones of disappointment,I have got some good things to say for once, I know can you believe it? Star Treatment is one of the best songs I've heard in a while, I mean sure it took me about five listens to get over the horrific fucking reverb on it,but it is one of the best songs to open an album with maybe ever, it sets the tone for the whole album,and sets your expectations so high for said album,hence why I was a tiny bit disappointed when I heard the next song One Point Perspective.

Again the music and the lyrics are there and are so so good, but they don't add up, and make something that it should be, in fact the whole album is like this nothing adds up like it should do, nothing really flows, but this might be deliberate, maybe this is what they've taken five years to come up with, can you tell I'm really annoyed that its been five years since they last album and this is what we have been given or?

Maybe I'm so disappointed with the album, because five years ago I was obsessed with them, and when i mean obsessed i mean OBSESSED, and i wanted this album to give me that feeling of being fifteen again and the only two things i cared about was Matt Helders and what park was me and all my mates going to drink cider in that day? (As I wrote this i realised i sounded like one of the members of dark fruits indie society fucking sick)

The two songs that stick out to me the most purely because they're the biggest load of dog shit I've heard since Kanye West rapped poopy-di scoop, scoop diddy whoop are American sports and Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino, but then again Golden Trunks is questionable as well. For the first time in what feels like well maybe ever, when listening to this album I'm waiting for the good stuff to happen, and that's what disappoints me the most with this album, I've never ever waited for the good arctic monkeys tracks to happen on an album, because all of them are incredible in different ways, and mean different things to me, but I still have hope that this album will grow on me, and that in two months time it will be the only thing I listen to, and that weird ass obsession I had will rear its ugly head again, but honestly it doesn't feel like it, I think its happened , i no longer care about arctic monkeys.

Libs gives this album a solid four Alex turner's out of ten
The okay songs on the album, star treatment, four out of five, the ultrachesse, she looks like fun and bat phone.
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