release date: Jan. 23, 2006
format: cd
[album rate: 4,5 / 5] [4,28]
producer: Jim Abbiss, Alan Smyth
label: Domino - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "The View From the Afternoon" (4 / 5) - 2. "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" (4 / 5) - 4. "Dancing Shoes" - 7. "Riot Van" (4 / 5) - 8. "Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured" - 9. "Mardy Bum" - 10. "Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But..." - 11. "When the Sun Goes Down" (4 / 5) - 13. "A Certain Romance"
Studio debut album by Arctic Monkeys is a great release. Yes, they were hyped the next big thing like hundreds of artists before them, and often just without much evident basis or talent, but these guys really play their British asses off. It's great garage rock in the a typical British working class style that draws on The Kinks, The Who, and 1970s big working class band, The Jam, and then adds some indie rock, and alt. rock. What really holds the band together is the lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter, Alex Turner. He's fantastic!
The album won many prizes and was picked as album-of-the-year including that of NME, Q Awards, Time Magazine, Hot Press, it won the Mercury Prize in 2006, and it's included in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
2006 Favourite releases: 1. Amy Winehouse Back to Black - 2. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - 3. Band of Horses Everything All the Time
