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The Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare - Tiscali Music Reviews

The Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

The Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

23rd April 2007


'Favourite Worst Nightmare', a breakneck journey through screwball punk and guitar-fuelled dance floor heroics is the Arctic Monkeys' eagerly anticipated second album, which finds the band exploring darker and deeper territory with their trademarked gnarled poetics and jaunty rhythms, once again enlisting the help of producer James Ford.

'Brianstorm' is the stomping opener and first single from 'Favourite Worst Nightmare'.

And it's very, very fast, it's loud and its bad tempered guitar rifts and drums give the song a feel of emergency.

It's a brilliant racket but it's also one of the strongest songs the Arctic's have ever written.

Alex's razorsharp wit is on tantalising form here; Brian is the flash, insufferable anti-hero of this Morricone-gone-drill'n' bass opening shot. Turner's lyric is a vignette, the portrait of a modern day villain, one of those scummy men who come in all shapes and sizes.

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