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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, and second album 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' isn't even anywhere near 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' is a fairly entertaining second
track, and there are a couple of other reasonable indie rock tunes scattered throughout the album; it's never great though and for the most part is in fact incredibly mediocre. So many filler tracks are present here and the album is therefore just incredibly flat. 'D Is for Dangerous' has a great title, the tracks not up to much however and it's this kind of bland indie that riddles the 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' album. 'If You Were There, Beware' is yet another tediously dull track from the album, and most of the time it is these sorts of tracks that you have to listen to here. None of the tracks are bad as such, they're okay and everything; they just don't really stand out or make you want to dance like the tracks from the band's first album did. 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' contained quite a lot of fun indie tracks with exceptional choruses, there's far less of that here however and the album often lacks energy and excitement.
'The Bad Thing' is another decent enough track, it's the third from final track on the album and quite fun and danceable during its introduction, even this one has its bland parts however, and when lead singer Alex Turner is merely talking at you he has such a dreary tone that it's therefore incredibly difficult to ever feel particularly entertained. Were there a little more about the instrumental element then perhaps the band would pull it off a little better, instrumentally there's nothing particularly special here however and although there are a couple of decent guitar riffs thrown into the mix; for the most part the instrumental section is just a bit rubbish. Everything about the album just feels distinctly average and never here does the music of the Arctic Monkeys ever seem to get properly going. The band is incredibly unadventurous throughout the entirety of this album, the music has little of a lasting impact and many of the tracks present here just aren't particularly good.
Listening to 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' is certainly not an entertaining listening experience, at its weakest points the album has me nodding off, and with its better moments has me raising a slight but not particularly well formed smile. I could bear this music if I was listening to it in an indie club, I doubt I'd be dancing however and probably in fact would be waiting patiently for the next track to come on whilst hoping it was a little more exciting. I've heard worse albums than this, then again I've also heard a lot better, and with the Arctic Monkeys having released a pretty decent debut album I have to say that I was hoping for a lot more than this with album number two.
If you liked the band's first album then you might like 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' or you might not; I like the band's first album and can't say I'm particularly enthused by this second one, it's just a bit too much on the boring side. It's like listening to the band's first album but with most of the fun taken out of the music, structurally the tracks are still decent enough, they're just very bland. It's still an indie rock album, just not as good an indie rock album and one with which the band does in fact just seem to have run out of ideas a little. Keep an eye out for album number three, in the mean time however; just keep listening to album number one and ignore 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' if you haven't already listened to it, it's probably for the best.
Label: Domino Records Release Date: April 18th 2007 Price: £8.98 (Amazon.co.uk)
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