Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys

Advantages: An excellent follow up to an amazing debut, a more mayture sound
Disadvantages: None at all

...release of the follow up, Favourite Worst Nightmare. The obvious doubts have been there about whether they would be a one record wonder or whether they had a little more substance to their musical ability. So having pre ordered this album weeks ago it finally arrived on Monday giving me a chance to answer the questions I had. Obviously the band have moved on from the place they were at whilst writing the debut. The last year has really matured the ...
...to kick it off. My favourite track has changed quite a bit since I got the album but at the moment I would have to say that “This House Is a Circus” tops the list. It’s quite a fast paced track that really pulls no punches. It starts off at a gentler pace but very quickly the pace picks up with a good combination of guitars, bass and drums. It’s a subtle start that really turns into a roaring track that really sums up the album as a whole. There ... Read review

Advantages: An awesome follow-up album
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

...that it regular says “Your favourite worst nightmare”) and again shows a dark side to the band that ultimately wasn’t there eighteen months ago…oh and they’ve thrown in a couple more swear words into the lyrics just to prove that point! Along with “Balaclava”, the opening four tracks show without question that the band have come along louder, harder and faster than before, yet still been able to perfect what they were good at during “Whatever People ...
...put everyday speech into a cracking rhythm, and generally good rock music. Then comes along “Fluorescent Adolescent” – a song seemingly along the lines of “Mardy Bum” from the debut album; quieter and along an acoustic line yet the kind of song that’ll get 70,000 people chanting away at festivals during the summer. “Only Ones Who Know” then shows a mellower, matured side to the Arctic Monkeys and everything they’ve shown before. Emotional music ... Read review

Advantages: The last 3 songs
Disadvantages: Everything else is average

On the back of "Whatever People Say I Am, I'm Not" which included the monster smash of last years "I bet you look good (on the dance floor)" the Arctic monkeys gained a mass following in the UK. This following lead to them smashing records for fast selling debut album and most songs in the top 200 (a pretty artificial record for now I feel) and on the back of this hype I went out and bought this album. Sadly I feel they mistitled the albu, and it ...
...Hypemare", but hey it'll make a good birthday present for someone I presume. Now if you look in the media as a whole they seem to be rating the Arctic Monkeys as the best thing in music since the guitar was invented, this generations beatles or Oasis if you would. I'll start the review the casing, a "3-part-card-fold-out-thingy" a random inlay booklet with pointless and irrelavant pictures and the only details are on the back of the book. A song ... Read review

Advantages: A couple of pretty decent tracks, stylistically not a bad album.
Disadvantages: The tracks are often incredibly lacklustre, the music lacks passion.

When your debut album sells as well as the Arctic Monkeys did; you're always going to have problems when it comes to album number two, particularly when your first studio album is incredibly over-hyped and over-praised. 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' is the second studio album from the Arctic Monkeys and was released through Domino Records in April 2007. The Arctic Monkeys debut album is pretty good; I'll give the band that, it's still not great though, ...
...as good as the first. It's an okay album, nothing greater than average however and listening to 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' provides for a really rather bland overall listening experience. There are twelve tracks present here and I'd say that the Arctic Monkeys is here slightly greater than average at best, and horribly boring at worst. There are some decent enough tracks present here, 'Brianstorm' kicks the album off well for instance, 'Teddy Picker' ... Read review

Advantages: Monster guitars and involving lyrics
Disadvantages: Not enough tracks!

Arctic Monkeys are definitely not the average indie guitar band, for a number of reasons. Firstly, they were so sought after before they had even released an album that their live shows sold out in minutes, with tickets being touted on eBay for hundreds of pounds each. Secondly, upon its arrival, debut album “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” became the fastest selling debut album in U.K chart history. And now we have a third point to ...
...to its massive anticipation, it completely obliterates it. There had been a lot of speculation over whether Sheffield based Arctic Monkeys could come up with the goods for their second album. There doubters left, right and centre slipping in comments like “they’re just an internet band”, or “they are over-hyped teenagers”. Even more doubts arose when original bassist Andy Nicholson was kicked out of the band because he couldn’t cope with extensive ... Read review