Arctic Monkeys headlining TRNSMT Festival 2018 (Photo: Live4ever)
After a short tease, the Arctic Monkeys have posted a video for the title-track of their Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino LP.
It was filmed in Reno, Nevada with co-directors Ben Chappell and Aaron Brown, and offer more from an album whose ‘wild diversionary nature may result in no-one ever feeling safe from the band’s next step again‘, according to Live4ever’s review:
“Described by Jamie Cook with typical Yorkshire understatement as ‘definitely not a guitar record’, Tranquillity Base… at no point relinquishes its inner weirdness, a glance inside a songwriter’s mind which, amongst the colloquialisms, is now weaving stories with the skill of a master beyond his years.”
“His commitment to this bar-stool repartee is total, closing pair Batphone and The Ultracheese a rustic country soliloquy and shuffling hip-hop curio respectively, sounding with every listen more and more like a pair of eccentric non-identical twins.”
“The search for a handle on the moment will be conducted in a default mode of head shaking, but there are some precedents, echoes found encased in Serge Gainsbourg, Marc Bolan and, less obviously, neighbourhood oddball Stephen Jones, better known as Babybird.”
