Rousing, buzzing, sweltering reinvention of one of the world’s hottest Indie/Rock bands, AM is without doubt the best Arctic Monkeys album from all five of them.
The four Sheffield boys seem to be constantly rethinking the musical genre they fit into, as this prodigious piece is slightly too tangy to be an Indie album and definitely too delicate to be completely Rock. Alex Turner’s words are swiftly woven into the witty melodies and sharp rythms, creating some vaguely Beatlesque lyrics that bounce off Turner’s toungue with exuberance. The final product is a deep but somewhat cheeky formulation of the band’s brilliant art of telling you things you’ve already heard but making them feel brand new.