diSKOAver weekly last updated: 5/03/2023
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diSKOAver weekly last updated: 5/03/2023 ✅
[Watch] Arctic Monkeys Visit KEXP For Acoustic Session
Alex Turner is a long way from home nowadays, or should I say he's making a new home for himself in America, and who could blame him. Gone are the days of singing about bouncers at Sheffield clubs and in is the 50's hair cut and sunglasses indoors vibe. Arctic Monkeys have grown into a chart topping band that deliver album after album and recently because of this, Alex visited KEXP for an acoustic session of some new Arctics' tracks. Alex delivered performances of "Reckless Serenade" and "Suck It And See" before finishing up the intimate session with "Love Is A Laserquest". Thanks to our friends over at One Thirty BPM for the heads up on this little beauty which can be enjoyed above and after the jump.
[Watch] Alex Turner Plays Two New Arctic Monkeys Tracks Unplugged
With the new Arctic Monkeys album just weeks away we've had a fair few previews of what's to come on the album already. Whether it be from official videos, or performances on numerous TV shows. Not to mention that surprise Big Weekend set a few weekends back. Today we have another Arctic Monkeys flavoured treat for you to digest. Frontman Alex Turner played an unplugged few tracks for radio station, 102.1 The Edge.
First up for you to sit back and enjoy is the album's title track, "Suck It And See", and then after the jump you can watch the fantastically named, "Love Is A Laserquest". Both these two tracks feel mellow and slower compared to the Arctic Monkeys of yesteryear but from the previews we've had it's what we've come to expect.
Suck It And See will hit stores on June the 6th, and it is a great listen. With the dark guitar tones and echoes we got to know on Humbug, paired up with bursts of frantic drumming and bass lines familiar to the workings on Favourite Worst Nightmare, I think fans will be pleased. These unplugged renditions should tide you over for another week though. Hat tip to Twenty Four Bit for the heads up on this.
[Listen] Alex Turner - 'Submarine' Soundtrack
Long gone are the days of getting a 20 minute train to Sheffield with my friends to catch Alex Turner and the Arctic Monkeys playing tiny shows to a handful of people, giving out CD's at the back afterwards. My original copy of their demos is still lying around in my collection somewhere, a little worse for wear no doubt given how much I used to play it. And rightly so that the boys have done good and now are a force to be reckoned with, raw energy at the live shows and Alex's story telling skills have developed even more so from the roots of talking about drunken nights out in sunny old Yorkshire. Less than a week after seeing the brand new video from Arctic Monkeys for the track, "Brick By Brick" we have a taste of Alex's solo work that he wrote for the film debut of Richard Ayoade (of The IT Crowd fame), Submarine. Below you can hear the intro and after the jump the rest of his tracks are up for listening.
Alex's soft voice backed by acoustic guitar on a few tracks with poppier drum beats added to others, it shows promise for the young songwriter who hopefully this year will complete work on the Arctic's fourth LP (rumour has it, it may even have already been completed with "Brick By Brick" coming from nowhere, homecoming gigs and festival slots in the Summer). Check out the tracks for yourselves below. A hat tip to TwentyFourBit for finding "Piledriver Waltz" leading to this little discovery of the whole EP in the early hours. Let's hope we get more music from not just Alex but the rest of the guys soon. Enjoy the EP, for me "Stuck On The Puzzle" stands out but it could just be the drum intro and Arctics feel to it. Should comfort the people worrying that he's lost his way with the words and still is a great modern poet.
"Stuck On The Puzzle (Intro)"