last night what we talked about it made so much sense/ but now the haze has ascended it dont make no sense anymore

Yeh you have heard of them before. On the radio. On the net. Even in the Sunday Times recently. The band who exploded onto the scene by smartly building up a critical mass of hype through free downloads, a testament to the strength of the grassroots-indie-blog machine, bypassing the traditional major label release/publicity/blah route.

The Arctic Monkeys sorts of sums up the kind of the print in British consciousness that has been around the past few years, their thick and fast riffs a mash of everything from Oasis to The Strokes. No sense wasting time and space here, just look about anywhere on the net if you want more info about them. Instead, for me I find ' From the Ritz to the Rubble' a pretty good encapsulation of the kind of sound they do.. cool and cockiness jammed into a tune with rabid guitars and clanking drums that just about, almost, catch up with singer/ songwriter Alex Turner's brash energy that tears through lyrics.

It's music for teenagers. A *very* specific sort though. Late beer fueled saturdays out in a country "where fundamentalism is allegiance to a soccer club rather than religion." ( pitchfork). Music with cheeky lyrics for impressing a girl with. Music that brings you through to the dancefloor and out in the morning with a headache. Music that gets overplayed on the radio. Meh.

The Arctic Monkeys - From The Ritz To The Rubble

a link to where it all started..