Miles Kane and Alex Turner will cover David Bowie and Billy Fury on the b-side to their new single.
‘The Age of the Understatement’ is the debut single from the duo’s new project The Last Shadow Puppets, and will feature versions of Bowie’s ‘In the Heat of the Morning’ and ‘Wondrous Place’.
The Arctic Monkeys and Rascals men will release the single, which also features new track ‘Two Hearts in Two Weeks’, on the 14th of April.
You can see the video to 'The Age of the Understatement' here.
An album, which shares names with its lead single, will be arrive through Domino on the 21st of April.
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I'm really looking forward to the album.
Although the single's a bit of a strange one. It sounds more like an opening track on an album than it does a single...
...
...think the single is great, its like a bond tune. All very scott walker esque with big strings and drama. I kind of agree that its not an obvious single, but then i dont really think that number 1's is what this collaboration is about.
They're gonna have recoup the money spent on the video somewhere...
That cannot have been cheap!
it is the opening track on the album
though I may have just misinterpreted what you said...
I thought it might be but wasn't sure.
I suppose what I meant is that, whilst it sounds like a good introductory track if you're bought an album (in that it creates a real sense of atmosphere in a similar way to the first track on the Streets' first album does or Introducing the Band does on Suede's "Dog Man Star"), it doesn't really sound like something most bands'd release as a single (i.e. in that it's sort of all build and no real chorus. It's a great song and I imagine it'd be a real kicker going into a second track but just doesn't sound like "single" material - that's not necessarily a bad thing mind.
Yeah, I see what you mean
and I agree. Just thought I'd let you know...
Ace.
I'm really optimsitic about the album.
That looks like
the shittest arm-wrestle ever. A stiff breeze would flatten those two.
Surely
Muse could actually file a lawsuit against this? It IS Knights of Cydonia.
why the fuck
as soon as a band becomes popular do we have to immediately accept some cunt from the bands side project.
fuck off alex turner. stay in the arctic monkeys where you belong. you twat
incidentally i havent heard any of this and if it turns out to be good, then ill eat my words.
otherwise fuck off alex turner. stay in the arctic monkeys where you belong. you twat
haha
i don't really like the arctic monkeys but i really like this new song he has done, and i'm quite looking forward to hearing the album.
So in this case, yay for side projects!
Just listened to the song
and I would rather be locked in a sealed safe, with michael barrymore, a pack of hungry vultures and incontinent horse, than have to ever listen to this crap again.
A bit extreme...
......but semi agree.
If this song were released by an unestablished band, no-one would pay attention to it. BUt as its got big names on it, Whiley and Co jump all over it.
I actually dont mind Artic Monkeys, they dont offend me like a lot of bands do (the new Enemey single makes me want to tear my shirt off, Hulk out and tear Coventry a Gamma radiated hole....) but this is just blaaaaaaaaaaaaand.
Is there even a chorus?
The single
is good, not anything special though. Still have high hopes for the album.
'I think
Alex Turner is a Jessy/!