The Car continues to surprise from there, with a second-half switchup to guitars and a stadium hook in "Body Paint" ranking among the band's finest moments, and a welcome folky tint to "The Car" and "Mr Schwartz" which feels as if Alex Turner has been consulting Nick Drake's Bryter Layter. That album's departure from the AM sound, so delightfully unexpected in 2018, sounds a little rote after "Sculptures of Anything Goes" kicks off with a menacing trip-hop drone that's so far afield of anything Arctic Monkeys have done you can't help but laugh. Even the austere, desolate album cover of The Car – shot by drummer Matt Helders on a film camera in Los Angeles, in stark contrast to Tranquility Base's handmade design - screams that this album is a serious anchoring of its predecessor's wilder impulses.Īnd yet: The Car makes Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino sound like an easy ride. It's an easy word to grasp, I suppose, especially in relation to the spacey sci-fi wanderings of Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino, The Car ostensibly being its down-to-earth, even-keeled counterpart. Review Summary: I'm behind my movie camera, I've got my megaphoneĪ word thrown around a lot in the run-up to the release of The Car was 'grounded'.
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