the last shadow puppets - the age of the understatement (album)

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1432133/7053513/
(for people who use torrents, im sure demonoid let's you download if you're not a member, as long as the torrent is less than a couple of weeks old.)
leaked only a day before the proper release date. standards are lacking :P

im listening to it now, and tbh its a bit of a let down. it sounds a lot like arctic monkeys, with alex doing about 70% of the singing, unless of course miles (from the rascals) has a voice sounding exactly the same. which is a shame, because i thought it was going to like a new sound
it'll probably have to grow on me, just like 'favourite worst nightmare' did.
it's worth downloading/buying, just dont expect too much from it :)

i downloaded it yesterday, it's pretty good but it's not really anything special.

oooh, might have a listen to that tonight then.


yeahh i know.
when i heard age of the understatement i wondered why i could only hear alex singing, then i downloaded some rascals songs and realised they sound the same anyway.

hm i know noone on here is very supportive of nme reviews, but i think that they are usually quite accurate. they gave this album 8 so it's quite promising but i'll see for myself later on.

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Originally Posted by omgitslily

oooh, might have a listen to that tonight then.


yeahh i know.
when i heard age of the understatement i wondered why i could only hear alex singing, then i downloaded some rascals songs and realised they sound the same anyway.

hm i know noone on here is very supportive of nme reviews, but i think that they are usually quite accurate. they gave this album 8 so it's quite promising but i'll see for myself later on.

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i dont usually agree with nme, but i think this is an 8/10 album personally.

ohhh god.
i forgot to download it but they have more songs on their myspace now.


i think it sounds amazing ;o!

gutted i don't have money to buy the album now ;(

i think it's good. Don't get me wrong Alex plays the main part in the song, but if the other guy was taken away there would probably be a big difference.

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Originally Posted by samsaBEAR

i dont usually agree with nme, but i think this is an 8/10 album personally.

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yeah, i almost always trust pitchforkmedia.com to give a reliable review, and they gave it a 7.7 out of 10 today, which is actually higher than what they gave WPSIAM and FWN (both a 7.4) so i might check it out.

well tbh pitchfork dont know what they're talking about if they gave WPSIAM a 7.4. its a brilliant album, and deserves at least an 8/9.

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Originally Posted by samsaBEAR

well tbh pitchfork dont know what they're talking about if they gave WPSIAM a 7.4. its a brilliant album, and deserves at least an 8/9.

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pitchfork are the most influential music publication around today. they're responsible for a number of bands' success, most notably arcade fire and interpol. 7.4 isnt a bad rating (6.7 is average, and there are far worse ratings than that), they said its a fun album, but it doesnt dig too deep. which i agree with. i love wpsiam too, but its not an album that'll stick, really. i usually agree with pitchfork, they might be elitist and obscure sometimes, but they're pretty much always right. nme have no idea whatsoever what they're talking about, ever. they gave blueberry boat by the fiery furnaces, a piece of musical art and experimentation a 1/10 because their reviewers are so close-minded.

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Originally Posted by RedStratocas

pitchfork are the most influential music publication around today. they're responsible for a number of bands' success, most notably arcade fire and interpol. 7.4 isnt a bad rating (6.7 is average, and there are far worse ratings than that), they said its a fun album, but it doesnt dig too deep. which i agree with. i love wpsiam too, but its not an album that'll stick, really. i usually agree with pitchfork, they might be elitist and obscure sometimes, but they're pretty much always right. nme have no idea whatsoever what they're talking about, ever. they gave blueberry boat by the fiery furnaces, a piece of musical art and experimentation a 1/10 because their reviewers are so close-minded.

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well, if 6.7 is the average then i suppose its a fair review
and i agree with the nme comment, i like reading it, but sometimes i think that their reviewers should get their heads out of their ***** and actually write a proper review, not a crappy one that they spent two minutes on, because they know regardless of the quality, tons of people will buy it and believe it

i think it's quite a disappointing album, based on the strength of the title track which is a tune. i usually trust nme and pitchfork, but in no way are pitchfork right on this. it's a 6 or 7, and no way better than either arctic monkeys albums. my problem with pitchfork is they seem to have a big disapproval of british indie.

pitchfork also hype up new bands and give them huge ratings, like hercules & love affair's album which got 9.1 i think? i reckon that album is so overated. then again nme are kinda the same, it all depends on the reviewer. nme can hype up a band for months, then give their album like 6/10 - it all depends who's reviewing it.

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Originally Posted by untrustus

i think it's quite a disappointing album, based on the strength of the title track which is a tune. i usually trust nme and pitchfork, but in no way are pitchfork right on this. it's a 6 or 7, and no way better than either arctic monkeys albums. my problem with pitchfork is they seem to have a big disapproval of british indie.

pitchfork also hype up new bands and give them huge ratings, like hercules & love affair's album which got 9.1 i think? i reckon that album is so overated. then again nme are kinda the same, it all depends on the reviewer. nme can hype up a band for months, then give their album like 6/10 - it all depends who's reviewing it.

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agreed, for the past 18 months they've been hyping hadouken! so much, but then only give the album a 6

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Originally Posted by samsaBEAR

agreed, for the past 18 months they've been hyping hadouken! so much, but then only give the album a 6

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i agree that they've left it a bit late, but i saw them last week and the new songs sounded pretty good and were back to the old style of that boy, that girl - which i'm sure nme loved?!

nah, i think this is the right time for hadouken! to release the album. a lot of the hype about them as died down, and they've already matured as a band.
and yeh, nme loved that boy that girl. hadouken! re-recorded it, and it sounds ace.

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Originally Posted by untrustus

i think it's quite a disappointing album, based on the strength of the title track which is a tune. i usually trust nme and pitchfork, but in no way are pitchfork right on this. it's a 6 or 7, and no way better than either arctic monkeys albums. my problem with pitchfork is they seem to have a big disapproval of british indie.

pitchfork also hype up new bands and give them huge ratings, like hercules & love affair's album which got 9.1 i think? i reckon that album is so overated. then again nme are kinda the same, it all depends on the reviewer. nme can hype up a band for months, then give their album like 6/10 - it all depends who's reviewing it.

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true dat. i still need to get that h&la album, they're on dfa and usually they put out good stuff. im not sure what to expect from it. but when pitchfork is right, as they were with giving "sound of silver" by lcd soundsystem a 9.2 last year, they're friggen right. but sometimes they're wrong, like how they gave that panda bear album last year a 9.4. i listened to it a few times, it's pretty, but its nothing amazing. i don't always agree, but i'm in huge debt because of all the bands ive discovered because of them; wolf parade, trail of dead, the unicorns, los campesinos!, vampire weekend, the microphones, broken social scene; just to name a few. they only have discontent for stereotypical british indie. there is some british indie they like, like los campesinos!, but they usually just brush off bands like does it offend you, yeah.

but what i do like about them, even if i dont agree, is how unbias they are, really. if there's music they think is crap, even if it's from a band they like, they'll rate it accordingly. they gave sonic youth, a band they named #1 for best album of the 80's, a 0.0 on one of their albums a few years back.

yeah that last bit is very true. and i must admit i was sceptical about vampire weekend prior to hearing them, but their album is ******* brilliant.

the last shadow puppets' album is alright, i can only hear alex though.

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true dat. i still need to get that h&la album, they're on dfa and usually they put out good stuff. im not sure what to expect from it. but when pitchfork is right, as they were with giving "sound of silver" by lcd soundsystem a 9.2 last year, they're friggen right. but sometimes they're wrong, like how they gave that panda bear album last year a 9.4. i listened to it a few times, it's pretty, but its nothing amazing. i don't always agree, but i'm in huge debt because of all the bands ive discovered because of them; wolf parade, trail of dead, the unicorns, los campesinos!, vampire weekend, the microphones, broken social scene; just to name a few. they only have discontent for stereotypical british indie. there is some british indie they like, like los campesinos!, but they usually just brush off bands like does it offend you, yeah.

but what i do like about them, even if i dont agree, is how unbias they are, really. if there's music they think is crap, even if it's from a band they like, they'll rate it accordingly. they gave sonic youth, a band they named #1 for best album of the 80's, a 0.0 on one of their albums a few years back.

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does it offend you, yeah? are a brilliant band.
but yeh, i can sympthise, the amount of bands that i have discovered via www.hypem.com is incredible. i just wish i had the money to buy all the music, but unfortunately, everywhere near me either wants a waitress, not a waiter or just doesnt need help "/
then the government expects us to pay full adult fare on about every single piece of public transport. im only 16 ***

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Originally Posted by untrustus

yeah that last bit is very true. and i must admit i was sceptical about vampire weekend prior to hearing them, but their album is ******* brilliant.

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i love vampire weekend's album. i didnt really like a-punk, but i remember stratocas going on about it in almost every post he made, so i checked the album out.

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does it offend you, yeah? are a brilliant band.
but yeh, i can sympthise, the amount of bands that i have discovered via www.hypem.com is incredible. i just wish i had the money to buy all the music, but unfortunately, everywhere near me either wants a waitress, not a waiter or just doesnt need help "/
then the government expects us to pay full adult fare on about every single piece of public transport. im only 16 ***

i love vampire weekend's album. i didnt really like a-punk, but i remember stratocas going on about it in almost every post he made, so i checked the album out.

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yeah, ive got around 100 albums. i work at a coffee shop, and we get tips, mostly change that people don't want. i get a pretty decent amount a month, so i go to a coinstar machine and turn it into amazon cash. got plenty of albums like that. it used to be i bought albums very rarely, only if i really really wanted it. now i buy them really casually.

and i was really skeptical of vampire weekend too. i heard the "mansard roof" demo and was like "meh," but when they gave it a good review (sometimes they hype up a band and end up actually trashing the album) i bought it. needless to say, i wasn't disappointed at all.

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yeah, ive got around 100 albums. i work at a coffee shop, and we get tips, mostly change that people don't want. i get a pretty decent amount a month, so i go to a coinstar machine and turn it into amazon cash. got plenty of albums like that. it used to be i bought albums very rarely, only if i really really wanted it. now i buy them really casually.

and i was really skeptical of vampire weekend too. i heard the "mansard roof" demo and was like "meh," but when they gave it a good review (sometimes they hype up a band and end up actually trashing the album) i bought it. needless to say, i wasn't disappointed at all.

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haha, when i first heard mansard roof i was like "what the..", but then i downloaded the album to check it out and i love it. bit bored of a-punk now, but it's still a good album. the b-side to mansard roof should be on the album though - it's called boston or ladies of cambridge (originally called boston, they changed it). try and get hold of it if you can, good track.

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Originally Posted by RedStratocas

yeah, ive got around 100 albums. i work at a coffee shop, and we get tips, mostly change that people don't want. i get a pretty decent amount a month, so i go to a coinstar machine and turn it into amazon cash. got plenty of albums like that. it used to be i bought albums very rarely, only if i really really wanted it. now i buy them really casually.

and i was really skeptical of vampire weekend too. i heard the "mansard roof" demo and was like "meh," but when they gave it a good review (sometimes they hype up a band and end up actually trashing the album) i bought it. needless to say, i wasn't disappointed at all.

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coinstar machines in england steal your monies
you have to pay like 8p per £1. its horrible :(

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Originally Posted by untrustus

haha, when i first heard mansard roof i was like "what the..", but then i downloaded the album to check it out and i love it. bit bored of a-punk now, but it's still a good album. the b-side to mansard roof should be on the album though - it's called boston or ladies of cambridge (originally called boston, they changed it). try and get hold of it if you can, good track.

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im actually a bit bored of the entire album now, actually. i played it pretty much nonstop for about a month, the songs' catchiness didn't last. i'll probably re-discover them later in the year. best song = walcott, for shizzle. yeah, i've heard boston, its good. if it were to be on the album, it should replace "one," i never liked that song at all.

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Originally Posted by samsaBEAR

coinstar machines in england steal your monies
you have to pay like 8p per £1. its horrible :(

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oh, well in america there's a dealio thing going. if you want to turn it into cash, it's 9 cents out of every dollar, but you can turn it into itunes, amazon, boarders' or a bunch of other gift cards for free.

[bleh, sorry about double post, my bad]

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Originally Posted by RedStratocas

oh, well in america there's a dealio thing going. if you want to turn it into cash, it's 9 cents out of every dollar, but you can turn it into itunes, amazon, boarders' or a bunch of other gift cards for free.

[bleh, sorry about double post, my bad]

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ah that sucks. i dont think you get deals like that in england.

vampire weekend's album is incredible, i love 'oxford comma' and 'one', not really keen on 'bryn' and 'm79' though.

oxford comma, blakes (got a new face) and mansard roof are probably my favourites
but as a whole its a brilliant album, none of the tracks are bad imo.

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Originally Posted by wrestle

vampire weekend's album is incredible, i love 'oxford comma' and 'one', not really keen on 'bryn' and 'm79' though.

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oxford comma is amazing :')
i love m79 though.


and i got last shadow puppets album today :]
sounds wickedd so far.
when i first heard that these two were doing an album i didn't think i'd like it at all but i've been proved wrong :')

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Originally Posted by omgitslily

oxford comma is amazing :')
i love m79 though.


and i got last shadow puppets album today :]
sounds wickedd so far.
when i first heard that these two were doing an album i didn't think i'd like it at all but i've been proved wrong :')

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i knew id probably like it, i go through periods of liking arctic monkeys loads, then not listening to them at all, so chances of me liking LSP were quite high.

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im actually a bit bored of the entire album now, actually. i played it pretty much nonstop for about a month, the songs' catchiness didn't last. i'll probably re-discover them later in the year. best song = walcott, for shizzle. yeah, i've heard boston, its good. if it were to be on the album, it should replace "one," i never liked that song at all.

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yeah, i know what you mean. i've stopped listening to them so i can listen to them a bit before seeing them at reading festival and i wont be sick of them. my favourite is probably "walcott", although i like "one." not a fan of "m79" and"i stand corrected".

oh.
i like every song on the album tbh, but i never really thought it was an amazing album. it's good, but not one of the best imo. i don't ever mind another playing ;]