Album review: Arctic Monkeys: Suck it and see. Released 6th June 2011.

Arctic Monkeys, Suck it and See, Produced by “Domino Records”, Similar sounding bands; The Strokes, The Vaccines, The Pixies.

Alex Turner described the Arctic Monkeys new album “Suck it and See” as a balance between their previous 3 albums; he couldn’t have described the album any better. Inspired by the likes off David Bowie, Nick Cave and Lou Reed, They have songs that sound like they should be in all 3 albums, songs like “Brick by Brick” being in “Whatever People Say I am that’s what I’m not”, this song sounds a bit like Kasabian/Oasis vocally. This song has a very basic structure and very basic repetitive lyrics, so when they leaked this and it was the first thing I heard from “Suck it and See” I was worried that the album was effortless, however luckily Arctic Monkeys haven’t let me down and the album is very impressive. “Don’t Sit Down ‘Because I’ve moved Your Chair”. Sounds like it would fit perfectly in their second album “Favorite Worst Nightmare” this song has similarities with the likes off “This House Is a Circus” and the humorous lyrics have close comparisons with “Fluorescent Adolescent” with lyrics like “Doing the Macarena in the Devil’s Lair. The song that would fit perfectly into third album “Humbug” is my favorite song on the album “Reckless Serenade” having similarities to “Gigantic” by The Pixies, this song is a beautifully written, mellow song, which reminds me off my favorite song on “Humbug” “Secret Door”. The lyrics in this song are very good, lines like, “"those twinkling vixens, with the shining spiral eyes, their hypnosis goes unnoticed when she's walking by." This is such a beautiful lyric and is my favorite on the album, this is the best way of calling a woman beautiful with words I have ever seen, lyrics like these mixed with a wonderful baseline and with Alex Turner’s calmer beautiful voice and the riff’s gentle that are very similar to “Cornerstone” this song is a very impressive hit on this album and defiantly stands out above the rest, I was worried that Arctic Monkeys were getting into a habit of trying to sound exactly like “Queen’s Of The Stone Age” due to Josh Homme helping majorly in Arctic Monkeys recent Albums but this song says otherwise. Josh Homme provides backing vocals in this album for song “All My Own Stunts” quite a boring song that sounds similar to Queens of the Stone Age, this isn’t an awful song, just a bit boring and is a bit of an “Album Filler”.

Having such a good debut album, Arctic Monkeys always build up very high expectations for their albums but they try to sound a bit different with each album, which annoys some fans who just want them as cheeky indie lads with songs they can just go mental to, however I think Arctic Monkeys have matured as a band with each album and are most mature with this one with Alex Turner’s very clever lyrics this album is a very good lyrical album, I think this is a good album and I like that Arctic Monkeys are changing their sound after every album, makes things more exciting, I think they have lived up to their expectations however I am worried that some fans won’t agree.

Album rating: 7.5/10.

Songs to download: The Hellcat Spangled Sha La La, Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve moved Your Chair, Reckless Serenade, Library Pictures.