| Arctic Monkeys - 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' |
| By Giannis Tsagarakis |
Published
02/1/2006
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Album of the Month
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Unrated
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Here aboard an unflinching wall of hysteria unparalleled in recent times, it’s little wonder that some are slightly sceptical about the Arctic Monkeys’ debut. We’ve all seen the hype, the almost endless tabloid and broadsheet column inches, the music press talking about the Sheffield foursome in unnervingly hallowed language, we’ve shook our heads in amazement at the self-professed ‘Arctic Army’ paying upwards of 100 pounds on eBay to see their unlikely looking heroes, not to mention the bewildering fanatical reaction to their live shows. Fookin’ hell even Noel Gallagher has heard of them! So while they’re uniting ‘mainstream’ music lovers and notching up number ones, already the tiny minority on the fringes are giving them the cold shoulder – as Alex Turner rightly predicted, it’ll soon be cool to hate the Arctic Monkeys. Yet to pigheadedly cast ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ aside you would miss out on a truly fantastic album.
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