Every Arctic Monkeys Single Ranked Worst To Best

22. Four Out Of Five

Do yourself a favour and listen to this alongside the music video. It’s like Stanley Kubrick and David Bowie had a baby raised in Sheffield with a love of both vintage and futurism.

Four Out of Five is yet another short journey on the Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino track and again hard to quantify as a single, simply because it’s not supposed to stand out on its own. There’s a sharpness in how dissimilar these songs are to the rest of Arctic Monkeys’ singles, the song is brooding, slowly spreading its message with Turner’s excellent way with words.

A single from an album where Turner attempts to dissect an era of consumerism, fake news and the celebrity, the words and style are placed in emphasis over catchiness. No matter how decent it is, Arctic Monkeys have made a career on combining lyrical astuteness with genuinely catchy and excellent songs.

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