• Episode 15 - Arctic Monkeys' "The Car" (2022)

  • Jan 15 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
  • Podcast

Episode 15 - Arctic Monkeys' "The Car" (2022)

  • Summary

  • Recorded during the Christmas holidays, Tim and Ollie broke from tradition and looked instead at a recent release from 2022, Arctic Monkeys' "The Car". Initially formed at school by Alex Turner, Matt Helders, Andy Nicholson and Jamie Cook in 2002, Arctic Monkeys rapidly broke onto the UK indie-rock scene in the mid-2000s following a grass roots level hype that had built up through playing many local gigs in Sheffield, where free copies of demo CDs were handed out to fans who ripped the tracks and file-shared them online. Their debut album "Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not" (2006) broke records with its commercial and critical performance, immediately making them the hot new favourites. But their trajectory since then has consistently been one of continuous evolution, often losing old fans and gaining new ones along the way. Initially going heavier and gloomier with "Favourite Worst Nightmare" (2007) and "Humbug" (2009), then they went more polished and commercial with "Suck It and See" (2011) and "AM" (2013) until most recently, by going more lounge-jazz, experimental and science-fiction via their hotel-on-the-moon concept album "Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino" (2018). Their latest effort very much continues this Alex-Turner-as-crooner direction, doubling-down on a cinematic sound that could easily be the score to any spy thriller film from the 1960s. But has this new direction come at a cost? Has the band simply become a vehicle to support an Alex Turner solo project? Have they released one polarising album too many? Join Tim and Ollie as they take a ride in The Car to explore the band's new album as well as their incredible, unpredictable career.

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