Fire and the thud (Arctic Monkeys) (LP 157 - 158)

Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare (CD - Domino, 2007) ***
Arctic Monkeys Humbug (CD - Domino, 2009) **

Genre:  English pop/rock

Places I remember:  The Warehouse (New Plymouth)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: This House is a Circus (FWN)




Gear costume:  Fluorescent Adolescent/ Old Yellow Bricks (FWN), Fire and the Thud (Humbug)

Active compensatory factors:  For me second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, is the band's high water mark, the fire.

I like the guitar attack, the loudness which differentiated it from the debut, the melodic hooks, and the distinctiveness of the arrangements throughout the whole album. It's a winner all the way!

Third album, Humbug, in comparison, was more about bass/drums thud, albeit with some interesting textures overlayed, and I stopped keeping up with the band from that point onwards. 

Where do they all belong? Even though Humbug changed the AM sound quite a bit, for me, the AM problem is how do they develop around those distinctive AM ticks (the Alex Turner vocals are so AM).