![]() Tranquility Base is a lyrics-first album if ever there was one, and those lyrics represent one lost train of thought after another. It’s this: “Bear with me, man, I lost my train of thought.” But really, the line from the album that reads as the thesis statement, the one that tells you everything you need to know about what Turner and his band are doing, shows up on “One Point Perspective,” the album’s second song. ![]() And when viewed in the right light, it looks like a statement of intent. It’s a great opening line, smirky and self-aware and attention-grabbing. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, the sixth Arctic Monkeys album, opens with tinkly pianos, brushed drums, murmuring vintage synths, and this line: “I just wanted to be one of the Strokes / Now look at the mess you made me make.” Alex Turner delivers it in a quavery, knowingly drunk open-shirt-collar slur, his voice slathered in echo.
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