Arctic Monkeys performing the first of two shows at Birmingham Arena in September 2018 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
As the 7″ single of the Arctic Monkeys‘ Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino album title-track gets a release today, its b-side Anyways has been shared online.
The track’s sound keeps the Sheffield band firmly in the lunar lounge groove of their 2018 LP, a place which Live4ever noted may mean no-one will ever feel ‘safe from the band’s next step again‘:
“In a private moment, the Sheffielders may look back on such a radical creation and deem it to be their very own Smile.”
“Assembling at the La Frette studio in Paris, the band recruited long time collaborator James Ford on production duties and recruited an ensemble cast including Tame Impala’s Cam Avery and James Righton, once of micro-scene nu-ravers The Klaxons. Turner appears in character as an ageing lounge lizard throughout, opener Star Treatment’s first stanza, ‘I Just wanted to be one of The Strokes/Now look at the mess you made me make/Hitchhiking with a monogrammed suitcase, miles away from any half-useful imaginary highway’, a brilliant, rakish setting of tone from which he rarely wanders.”