10/28/2022 0 Comments Age of the understatement rar![]() ![]() You suspect he adopted the rock star posture as a protective mechanism to deal with his massive profile, while for Kane, every middle-aged dad's favorite Paul Weller substitute, it's a retrograde aspiration. Their deathless hit track, in hock to 1960s English psychedelia, goes, "I'm fickle, I'm cold, I'm shallow/ You fill me with inertia/ Don't get excited."įor a few years now, Turner has sported a well-greased quiff and an obscure attitude (" invoice me for the microphone"). Wish granted, he immediately finds himself eclipsed by his rival, played by Peter Cook, who has formed a band called Drimble Wedge and the Vegetations. There's a scene in 1967's Bedazzled where Dudley Moore, as part of his deal with the devil, wishes to become a pop star so that girls will love him. One of the inspirations for Everything You've Come to Expect was Isaac Hayes' glorious Hot Buttered Soul, but that's not the first thing that comes to mind here. "Gimme all your love so I can fill you up with hate," they ooze. "Bad Habits" truly establishes Kane as the Austin Powers to his mate's Bond, as he yelps over blood-red bolero that he "should've known, little girl, that you'd do me wrong."īy the Homme-tinged desert rider "Used to Be My Girl," misanthropy has set in. On "She Does the Woods," ostensibly a song about shagging in the bushes, Turner is dazzled by the girl looming above him, behind her, "a spirograph of branches that dance on the breeze." There are numerous songs about fucking-"Just let me know when you want your socks knocking off," "Baby, we ought to fuck seven years of bad luck out the powder room mirror"-and, with grim inevitability, songs about how girls have fucked them over. Sometimes they still sound as awestruck as on their debut. The only difference between them is a seven-year age gap. Like Zayn Malik's Mind of Mine, Everything You've Come to Expect makes very clear that Turner and Kane are sexy men with sexy lives having lots of sexy sex with their sexy girlfriends. It's the perfect music for the Daniel Craig-era James Bond films: sophisticated, tortured-and with a weakness for temptation. Dusty opener "Aviation" could be Calexico playing backing band to some tortured crooner "Miracle Aligner" is a fever dream of the Replacements' " Swingin Party," while the title track turns French carousel organs into a captivating narcotic spiral. Melody Nelson: The first five songs at least are totally gorgeous, the strings glassy, the tone all understated seduction, the structures fluid and surprising. His work here puts him on a par with Jean-Claude Vannier, the man behind Gainsbourg's. ![]() Both artists now live in L.A., and their long-awaited second album, Everything You've Come to Expect, is a lavish California confection, featuring a 29-piece orchestra recorded at Hollywood's storied United Recording, and arranged by Owen Pallett. Miles Kane could feasibly lay claim to being friends with one of the biggest rock stars in the world. Arctic Monkeys are five albums in, and Alex Turner could feasibly lay claim to being one of the biggest rock stars in the world. ![]() Eight years on, the starting blocks are very different. ![]()
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