Brutally and boisterously four pimply adolescents made their with Sheffield guitars in 2006 as Arctic Monkeys. Singer / guitarist Alex Turner looked like a smart street kid who, in his lyrics, was able to fillet his surroundings - especially the alcoholic British youth - with razor sharpness. Turner now lives the life of a rock millionaire who likes to show herself at jet-set parties in London
… and New York. On the fourth album by Arctic Monkeys you can clearly hear that he has little to complain about. His vocals sound almost dreamy and absent in a dozen tightly played Britpop songs that are somewhere between and . The rock influences of the third album (2009) are somewhat subdued, although there is a lot of play in the blunt Brick By Brick, for example. Suck It And See is a great album, but the band seems to have lost the edge of the past on the road to success. (MR)more
