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The Last Shadow Puppets is not a totally new name to the indie rock scene. The band consists of Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys (with his recognizable voice) and Miles Kane of The Rascals (who is also young and pretty like Alex). So if you add these two together with some songs produced by James Ford who is part of the duo Simian Mobile Disco (if you don’t know them, stop reading and go buy their album because whatever anybody says about this album, we can promise you that it’s not as good as SMD’s ‘Attack Decay Sustain Release’) you’ll get a guaranteed succes album.

Of course we’re not trying to bitch but their voices sound so familiar to us that we hoped, before listening to this album, that they would give us something new with ‘The Age of The Understatement’. And they did! Because the whole album has this James Bond ‘From Russia with Love’ vibe with string orchestra’s, moody and gloomy melodies and a lot of dark lyrics! Just take a look at their first video from this album and you’ll understand what I mean. The best songs are ‘Standing Next to Me’, ‘Black Plant’, and ‘Calm Like You’.

If you have a Vodka bottle at home and you’re alone put this album on and start drinking your sorrows away!!