Digital Ghosts (Special Edition) [Digipak] - Shadow Gallery

Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement

Advantages: Another portion of music from Alex Turner
Disadvantages: Doesn't have that 'catchyness' that the Arctic Monkeys has...

The Age Of The Understatement is the debut album from The Last Shadow Puppets; a side project of Alex Turner of The Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane of The Rascals...one you may well have heard of, but one you may not have!! The Age of the Understatement was released in the UK on 21 April 2008, going straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart...the hype and success surrounding it was for the most part due to Turner's role in the band. The likes of Radio 1 put the debut single straight into it's A-list, the likes of the NME waxed lyrically over their arrival...but was it worth the hype?? Well first of all, the two met when Kane's former band The Little Flames supported the Arctic Monkeys during their 2005 & 2007 UK tours. Kane also played guitar on "505", the closing track of the second Arctic Monkeys album "Favourite Worst ...

carl.mcqueen 05.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Age Of The Understatement, The (Limited Edition) [Digipak] - Last Shadow Puppets (The)

We haven't heard the last of the shadow puppets

Advantages: More music for fans of the band members, decent album overall
Disadvantages: inconsistent, different to what you'd expect from the group

The Last Shadow Puppets is a 3 piece indie rock band fronted by Arctic Monkeys lead singer, Alex Turner. His sideline group is made up by James Ford on Drums and Miles Kane on Bass if i remember rightly. Both of these musicians met Alex Turner when Miles Kane's other band, 'The Rascals' supported the Arctic Monkeys. The album is called 'The Age of The Understatement' and consists of 12 Tracks and runs to almost 35 minutes. Fans of either band will have to be open-minded as The Last Shadow Puppets do seem to be a little more downbeat than Arctic Monkeys and more contemporary and conventional than The Rascals. The Tracks [Track 1 - The Age of The Understatement] The album screeches into an early crescendo with its title track, also a prominent yet simple bassline present early on. It may lead some Arctic Monkeys fans ...

BZ2886 20.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Age Of The Understatement, The (Limited Edition) [Digipak] - Last Shadow Puppets (The)

My ghost makes me human

Advantages: A truly thought-provoking work of art
Disadvantages: A somewhat uneven plot

.85:1 Widescreen format that has been Anamorphically enhanced, which is good as in an animation it is always best to be able to see everything without losing bits in a Pan & Scan format. The music and visuals are particularly well displayed in a long collage of the urban Hong Kong with its dirty waterways and towering skyscrapers that can be seen as maybe an over-indulgence on the part of the filmmakers, but it is one of my favourite scenes, so who cares. In the line of extras the original release doesn't really have anything outside of a trailer, while the Special Edition contains a few that in the end don't amount to much, though. The big highlight is The Making of Ghost in the Shell -featurette that follows much of the conception, animation, music and such behind the scenes things. The other extras aren't that fantastic though. The theatrical ...

berlioz 15.01.2006 · Read full review
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