Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys\' debut gave British rock music a swift kick in the trousers. Riotous tracks like \"The View from the Afternoon\" and \"Dancing Shoes,\" with their twitchy drum lines and broken guitar scales, are both wobbly and anthemic; they provide a fitting backdrop to Alex Turner\'s stories of “weekend rock stars” who dodge the police, hustle club bouncers, and dance “to electro-pop from 1984.” The songs are more snapshots than portraits, but there’s an urgent beauty in their raggedness.
Their LP was only released two days ago but these Sheffield teens are already considered the UK’s biggest new band since Oasis.
If any single song was going to make British indie-rock sensation Arctic Monkeys into an instant legend, it might as well have been "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor," a three-minute shot of nightcrawler frenzy that captures what it's like to be young, hip, and on the make. The song starts in chaos and gradually…
You’ve read the hype, seen ’em live and probably even got the demos. Now check out the real polished deal. Read NME's original 2006 review.
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<p>'I Bet You Look Good...' was no one-off, insists <strong>Sarah Boden</strong>, who is thrilled by these brash snippets of life in a northern town.</p>
Another year, another British band christened the Next Big Thing by every conceivable publication in the UK.
And over there: they've broken bonesThere's only music so that there's new ringtonesIt doesn't take no Sherlock HolmesTo see it's a little different,...
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