A few years ago, there was an article in Paste Magazine, more of an info-graphic really, of the endangered music animals that were out there. One of the bands they put on the watch list was Arctic Monkeys. And maybe if they had kept with their original sound, maybe people would get tired of them and toss them to the curb. Their ability to reinvent themselves for every album has really propagated the band or animal if you will. From album to album, one of the only ways to recognize that the music is all coming from the same band is through Alex Turner’s vocals.
Brick by Brick has a very retro feel to it which has been the trend with Arctic Monkeys ever since Alex Turner’s side project, The Last Shadow Puppets. I wasn’t instantly a fan of this song, even though I think the music video is great, but it has since grown on me. This is the way it is for most Arctic Monkeys songs though. Once they grow on you, they stick with you.
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