CD - The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets

2:20pm Wednesday 7th May 2008

THE Last Shadow Puppets are the side project of Arctic Monkeys' frontman Alex Turner and Miles Kane from the Rascals and there is a consistent quality to the songs, perfectly playable for teens looking for a theme song to their latest angsty moment.

On the whole the album is packed with pretty competent and powerful filler tracks, which stick in the mind without really having good reason to, like the repeated line "I'm a ghost in the wrong coat, eating butter and crumbs", from Separate and Ever Deadly, which gets lodged like an awkward stone in your shoe.

However, it's on the beautifully melodic My Mistakes Were Made for You that the puppets take off and show what they're really capable of.

A mournful reminiscence with hints of the Noel Harrison classic Windmills of my Mind which lifts the entire album.

At the end of the selection, two more fantastic tracks follow, The Meeting Place and Time Has Come Again, which both hint at Richard Hawley's recent work and pleasantly mean you're left on a high from what begins as a distinctly average album.

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