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Originally Posted by Jack Pat
To be honest... I've always thought of The Arctic Monkeys as being a fad. They have always struck me as simply being an average-sounding indie rock band who happen to get a lot of hype from music critics.
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They have suffered from this countries need to jump on anything new and play/praise them to death so the hype is rarely justified and everything else the band release just seems like another disappointment. However this is usually proved correct with each Arctic Monkeys album being worse than the previous. I think I have played their last album Humbug twice at the most whereas their debut (although not musically original) DID have a youthful exuberance and quality hooks that still merits a listen.
I usually find the bands that grow into a musical maturity and find their identity over a couple albums more preferable to a band that doesn't think beyond their debut album although in the fickle nature of popular music it is is just enough to get an album out I guess.