release date: Mar. 14, 2011
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,92]
producer: James Ford
label: Domino Recording Company - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 2. "Hiding Tonight" (3 / 5) - 3. "Glass in the Park" (3 / 5) - 5. "Stuck on the Puzzle" (3,5 / 5) - 6. "Piledriver Waltz"
Solo album debut by Arctic Monkeys' lead singer and guitarist Alex Turner is a 6-track ep with songs for the movie "Submarine" by Richard Ayoade. The songs are singer / songwriter material mainly only with Turner on vocals and acoustic guitar. A few tracks feature drums, keyboards, bass and strings, but still shaped as singer / songwriter material. Both "Hiding Tonight" and "Glass in the Park" are fine quiet songs but they do really make me think of Richard Hawley, whom Turner apparently said had made the album-of-the-year when Arctic Monkeys was handed the Mercury Prize in 2006 for its debut album - something I agree on.
[ allmusic.com, Independent 3 / 5 stars ]
