A literal first review!
The Last Shadow Puppets- who, what, where how and why have I not heard of this band before? Instantly I recognised Alex Turner's voice but then I wonder what he is doing under another bands name. A scan over Wikipedia later reveals that this band has been around since 2008 with Alex Turner being the lead singer for this band as well as Arctic Monkeys. Fair to say I'm questioning my music reviewing status as we speak with how unaware I was of this. But never the less I'm going to let everyone know about their song 'Is This What You Wanted'.If you were to close your eyes and not watch the music video, you would sense some characteristics of 80's male singer style band, weirdly even Freddie Mercury sprung to mind but I think that was more based on the lyrics rather than music style. Open your eyes and the video genre is also very 80's basic recording of a performance of the song. If this was released back in the 80's I'm pretty sure it could have easily been number one on Top of the Pops. Sadly in today's musical climate I don't know how far this will go but if you like something different and alternative this is definitely heading in that direction. It's also quite nice to see Alex Turner outside of Arctic Monkeys. This slower more mellow tone from him works just as well and it's good to see diversity even if it isn't massively different from what he does. A band I will have to do some musical homework on but interested to see what else they have done in the past.
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