A-Rach-Naphobia's Pick:
The Last Shadow Puppets - "My Mistakes Were Made For You"
(You'll Never Make a Monkey Out Of Me)
For the amount of time and effort it took bands like Blur and Pulp to summarize what it meant to be a scoozin' Brit - living in not so glorious sociopolitical and creative times, Alex Turners' Arctic Monkeys were able to footnote their period quickly with 9 simple words: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. Turner and company's most anticipated album of the new millennium had a lot to live up to against such British staples as "Park Life" and "A Different Class," (which are almost commonplace with such things as crisps and cricket as far as the Limes are concerned), but at the measly age of 19, the Monkeys captured the new era of Britain and it's throwback to 1980s counterculture with ease it seemed. Whether such comparisons to lyric-legends like Morrissey are ever warranted and whether you even enjoy their music, one thing is certain: Alex Turner can do whatever he wants. And so he has. With the aid of Miles Kane (of The Rascals), Turner has formed yet again a duo that encapsulates everything English - from the snotty swagger of Ashcroft to the lager and lads bravado of Oasis et al to the mod espionage of Paul Weller - "My Mistakes Were Made For You" is the sort of tune you'd listen to while tracing a bullet casing of a suspicious caper, one that leads you straight to the scene of the crime: Spector's afro.
This person also liked: The Verve, Noah and the Whale and Elbow
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