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Originally Posted by jackhammer
I still cannot remember a lot from this album, even though I have heard it many times. The musicianship is better than the first and maturity has set in but for the worse. This is just another banal guitar pop album that will not be remembered in ten years times whereas the debut definitely will due to the multitude of genres it lightly touches upon.
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It's far from banal. You are right that in all likelihood it will not be remembered in two years time let alone
ten, but that's not because of its insipidity or whatever. It's just because it doesn't contain any of those "massive" songs: A Certain Romance, I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, Mardy Bum, When The Sun Goes Down, The View from the Afternoon... those are what will make the debut the memorable one, not the "multitude of genres" is supposedly touches upon. But the sophomore album is the one where the Arctics find their own sound and stop aping others. And yeah, so it has a more brooding tone and doesn't scale the pop heights of Whatever People Say I Am, but that wasn't the idea - Turner's not one to get stuck in a niche, unlike so many others, and exploration/redefinition is his game. As such, this album proved that if any of these New Wave Revival/Britpop bands have anything actually special, exciting and new in store for the future, then it's the Arctic Monkeys.
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