10 Rock Bands You Forgot Were GREAT
3. The Last Shadow Puppets
What a cocky duo of english rockers this was. Alex Turner and Miles Kane might act like a couple of obnoxious, arrogant peanuts, but when they've teamed up over the years, they've given the world some damn fine music.
There was no getting away from Alex Turner's distinctive northern vocals, but far from releasing records that sounded like Arctic Monkeys B-sides they gave us tracks that had all the grandiosity of a film score.
The title track from the debut album The Age of Understatement, sounded like a theme song for a James Bond movie set in the Old West and the rest of the tracks following suit. With surging string sections and distinctly cowboy sounding guitar melodies, listening to this band is like taking a romp through a Clint Eastwood western directed by Quentin Tarantino.
They had all the energy of the Monkeys but their music felt far more polished, which was interesting due to the fact James Ford (who had produced several Monkeys albums at this point) produced that first record.
Music trivia aside, go book a horse riding lesson, find yourself a cowboy hat and stick on The Last Shadow Puppets.