20 years of Arctic Monkeys – the band celebrates themselves by staying true and unfaithful at the same time on their seventh album. Loyal because THE CAR offers no further change of direction after the daring TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL + CASINO. Unfaithful, because these interplays have always shaped the career of the group, think of the reinvention of the Arctic Monkeys as a US-affine alternative act with AM (2013), including sudden mass sales in America. With that, it seems today, songwriter and singer Alex Turner said it all when it came to rock.
With THE CAR, the band conducts further in-depth research in exotic areas such as lounge pop and torch songs, dark funk and silk shirt soul. There are fans from the early hours who find it totally boring. This is mainly due to the fact that the Arctic Monkeys also negate conventional arcs of suspense on THE CAR. The band is no longer interested in conventional tricks such as refrains or loud-quiet dynamics.
A record full of song sculptures that take the liberty of floating in all possible directions
The highlights take place in other dimensions, for example when the easy-going funk of “I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am” seems to transition into “My Way” again and again without this connection being formulated. Or when a guitar saws into the voluptuous title track after two and a half minutes, which Mick Ronson wouldn’t have dared to do even in Bowie sessions, it mills the sound so much.
“Sculptures Of Anything Goes” is the name of one of the songs, which is how the former indie dancefloor wonderboys sum up their concept: a record full of song sculptures that take the liberty of floating in all possible directions – even if it’s like the folky dancer portrait “Mr. Schwartz”, to where “Mr. Bojangles” is at home. And a word about Alex Turner’s vocals: It’s so great that sometimes you think Morrissey has switched consultants and finally recorded a great late work, with Roxy Music backing up during the AVALON era.
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