Arctic Monkeys For Real

I may be a bit late on this one but I STILL see people bagging on the Arctic Monkeys because of the megahype they received prior to the US release of "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not." Well all I can to the naysayers is shut the hell up and buy the damn album. It's one of the best albums of the last ten years and it's not the band's fault that the hype machine went into overdrive. If you were 19 or 20 and record company came knocking on your door, you'd let them do whatever they wanted to promote your album also. That's a lot of Benjamins (or Queen Marys or whatever they have on the pound) to turn deal with at that age.

Anyway... Enough ranting and back to the album. The lyrics on this record are amazing. If you speak fluent Brit, you'll probably enjoy it more than the average American but you can appreciate it even if you've never seen as much as a single Monty Python episode. Alex Turner's vocals aren't particularly crisp but they fit the music very well. Actually the same can be said for the rest of the band as well. I don't think that any of them are the best in their respective fields but the total package is near perfection. If you're a fan of Franz Ferdinand, The Killers or Britpop in general you have to buy this album.