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Alex’s hair falling in his face at Best Kept Secret 2018. (x)

AM | Adelaide 10.05.2014

Schmicko adj. | shh-MIK-oh | An Australian term meaning full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive; esp. in a mysterious or magical way. - UD

Video can be found here!

monsieurturner

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maggierodgers

HAPPY 15TH ANNIVERSARY TO WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT (JAN. 23, 2006)

“Those cheeky Arctic Monkeys. Equal parts snotty precociousness, youthful vim and naive charm, the quartet sprang fully formed from the back streets of Sheffield and topped the charts with their first single ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’ via word of mouth. No Americanisms, no excess, no jauntily-arched eyebrows. A baby-faced motley crew with no discernible ‘look’, they dress in scruffy casual clothing and refuse to talk themselves up.

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Indeed, in 19-year-old Turner the Arctic Monkeys have a genuinely charismatic frontman with a dose of the sneering panache that made Liam Gallagher great. His lyrical stance casts him as a younger, grittier cousin of fellow Yorkshire geezer savant Jarvis Cocker. The pleasure is in the microscopic detail - snatches of conversation, gestures and flirtatious glances - all of which is instantaneously recognisable.

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This latent maturity suggests that Turner can only improve with time. Indeed his songs are already greeted like timeless classics at gigs. And if they don’t cock it up by going too mad with rock'n'roll’s outlandish fripperies, the Arctic Monkeys are poised to make an indelible connection with a generation of music lovers hungry for visceral thrills.”

rogerseyeliner

currently trying to process the fact that the opening lyrics to ‘four stars out of five’ were supposed to be ‘karaoke and raspberry beret, in imaginative ways, and i get signed right then and there by a hotshot executive / i wasn’t expecting it that easy.’

arcticmonkeysus

one thing i AM proud of is my eclectic music taste. sometimes i listen to an arctic monkeys album, but other times i’ll listen to a different arctic monkeys album. heck, sometimes i listen to unreleased demos or even acoustic versions of arctic monkeys songs. you just never know, with me. i’m a wildcard.

iwannabeyourvacuumcleaner

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mrschwartz

so i experienced a thought while eating garlic bread and had to make it a reality

mrschwartz

okay i lied. i didn’t wanna treat this as a circle because tbhc isn’t their last album ever but this was actually the whole thought

monsieurturner

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alex + messing with both sides of the crowd

mattrnurdock

“[AM] is sort of our most original record, or maybe our most ambitious album, in that sense. I think we were reaching for something that hasn’t existed on one of our albums before. Or possibly…anyone’s, really, if you like, forgive the arrogance for a second. I’ve written the best record ever made.”