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| The Age Of Understatement | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Last Shadow Puppets
Label: Domino
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 10830
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.6 x 0.4
EAN: 5034202020844
ASIN: B0017PCX9I
Release Date: April 21, 2008
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 Shocking June 25, 2008
2 out of 20 found this review helpful
Simply awful. Tired, lazy lyrics which pertain to be deep and meaningful but are woefully convoluted. And just terrible music. Overblown pap.
Voice of a Generation and ..who? June 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A lovely debut from maybe Britians cutest male duet but is it only famous because of the legacy of Alex Turner?
The strings of Age of the understatement kicks in followed by miltary drums and sweeping strings galore. The pair racing through the lyrics like hurdles. I must say the title track lives to its title it is a big understatement. 2nd track "Standing next to me" makes you feel like your shooshing through the swiss alps in a classic car. With Alex Turner showing that fast indie rock is not the only trick up his sleeve. "Calm like You" is a large swooping landscape yet again with ... yes you guessed it Alex Turner on lead vocals again but an enjoyable song all the least, referring to a realtionship falling apart " I am craving heartbreak as you are making your demands". "Separate and ever deadly now" and whats this? another voice? This must be the Miles Kane the 2nd shadow puppet as he's referred as. Miles earns his stripes in this song showing that he is not shadowed by Alex (Shadowed Gettit? Oh don't worry) The music is now getting quite samey now and dragging on but still a lovely accompiant to the stunning poetry of lyrics. "The Chamber" giving a different slant on a winning formalua with a story of a torture chamber probably? The Highlight of the album being "My Mistakes were made for you"
Strings, Guitar, Brass etc spot on. A chorus of "It was fame that put words in her mouth, she could'nt help but spit them out, innocence and arrogance entwined, in the filthest of minds" Timelessness is the only way to describe "MMWMFY". The remander of the tracks are all the same in the way that there is nothing more to the album than the tracks i've outlined.
If it was only 6 tracks i would have said that the album was a masterpiece. But the other tracks let it down slightly showing that Timelessness is a good thing but trying to the same thing all over an album is not a very good thing.
Andrew Snickett
(1st Review)
 probably best if you like the monkeys May 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like Alex Turner's voice so as he sings most of the time he is on to a winner already.
They manage to make the 60s retro sound interesting (Duffy how come you can't). Quirky lyrics well delivered. Not bad at all.
Busy production and orchesteral/big band sounds means it doesn't make it all the way through very often in out house.
 absolute quality....... May 24, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
from start to finish. album of the year so far for me , by a distance. great strings , great tunes , great lyrics.
marks out of ten for each track...
the age of the understatement 9/10
standing next to me 9/10
calm like you 8/10
seperate and ever deadly 10/10
the chamber 7/10
only the truth 10/10
my mistakes were made for you 9/10
black plant 8/10
i don't like you anymore 8/10
in my room 9/10
meeting place 10/10
the time has come again 9/10
An Interesting Side-Project...nothing more May 24, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
In the crush to acclaim the side project of Artic Monkeys figuregead Alex Turner as some work of genius a couple of points seem to have been lost. There is no way that The Last Shadow Puppets are going to out-sell the Monkeys, and its a dangerously thin line between homage and pastiche.
And however much you make like this album, it's difficult to escape from the fact that it may ape the likes of Lee Hazlewood and Scott Walker but it never really threatens to break out from that shadow.
The plus points are that it is a very effective pastiche and, clocking in at just over half an hour, it breezes past without dragging.
Still, as accomplished as it is, it lacks that X-Factor and you can't help feeling that if a unheard of Joe Bloggs presented this to the world the clamour to acclaim it wouldn't be as strong. Still, it will tide you over until Turner unleashes the next Monkeys album.
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