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The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets are a newly formed band and side project by Arctic Monkey's lead singer, Alex Turner. "The Age Of The Understatement" is their debut album released earlier this year.

Alex takes on vocal duties, as you'd expect, and he's rounded up a couple of mates to help him out, oh and the 22-piece London Metropolitan Orchestra for good measure.

The Last Shadow Puppets' sound is definitely unique - the energy of the Arctic Monkey's combined with a a full ocrchestral accompaniment works absolutely brilliantly.

Here are a couple of youtube vids, the tracks are only a couple of mins long so i've posted two.

The next single to be released off the album is called "Standing Next To Me"...

But don't be tricked, this album has all kinds of different sounds. Here's "The time has come again" which is probably my favourite...

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