Reviews
"Turner’s long tried to ape Nick Cave and Dion, but on the likes of 'American Sports' and 'Golden Trunks' he hit upon a style of noirish, plastic-soul balladry all his own.", "Shelving stadium-ready indie rock in favour of a sparkling vintage cosmic voyage, this record marks the Monkeys’ first step into a surrealist universe...", Included in Entertainment Weekly’s “The 20 Best Albums of 2018” -- "The album trades in glittery Bowie-esque glam, Serge Gainsbourg swing, and baroque space-jam psychedelia.", "The band’s sixth album is undoubtedly their strangest, most alluring release to date....Guitars take a backseat to twinkling keyboards and zero-gravity ambience...", "TRANQUILITY, with its baroque piano pop and arch, Bowie-esque flourishes, somehow manages to blaze whole new avenues without losing the core essence of the U.K. foursome’s musical DNA.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "A fleshed-out, Bowie-esque statement of excess and grandeur. Lavish strings populate ‘One Point Perspective’, and album closer ‘The Ultracheese’ is one of the band’s finest collective achievements to date...", "A left-turn if ever there was one, but the way Alex Turner swaps witty sleaze for absurdist suave makes it a totally bemusing and fascinating listen.", "A lounge-pop concept record set in a casino piano bar on the moon. Turner romances his Steinway, tapping influences like French crooner Serge Gainsbourg's oily Sixties ballads...", "Arctic Monkeys’ latest serves as a direct line into Turner's innermost thoughts....A testament to the band’s ever-evolving nature, proving that reinvention might be the key to longevity."
