| View Larger Image | Humbug | Audio CDby Arctic Monkeys
| List Price: | $13.98 | | Price: | $11.99 | | You Save: | $1.99 (14%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Domino | | Release Date: | August 25, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 1,077st |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: My Propeller
- Track 2: Crying Lightning
- Track 3: Dangerous Animals
- Track 4: Secret Door
- Track 5: Potion Approaching
- Track 6: Fire and the Thud
- Track 7: Cornerstone
- Track 8: Dance Little Liar
- Track 9: Pretty Visitors
- Track 10: The Jeweller's Hand
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
'Humbug,' the 3rd album from Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys finds the band brimming with vim, vigor and new ideas. They brought in a new production accomplice, Josh Homme, for some of the recording. He generously hosted and produced tracks with them at his Joshua Tree studio. Then they rejoined forces with James Ford, producer of the previous 2 Arctic Monkeys and Last Shadow Puppets albums, in Brooklyn, NY to complete the tracks that became 'Humbug.' The album is stunning set of songs both heavier and lush than previous albums but still full of the Monkeys usual punch and vitality. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 31 reviews)
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They Grew Up, Musicly by D. Riley  5 Stars
November 13, 2009
Ok first off I have alot of musical intrest. The Artic Monkeys fit somewhere between The Strokes and The Hives in my book. However I also love Queens of the Stone Age, front man Josh Homme produced most of this album at Rancho de la Luna, where the Desert Sessions are Recorded.
Ok now if you know both of these bands you know they sound nothing alike, but this cd is a conjunction of the two. You have a generally slower tempo, darker sound and lyrics, and trippy slide guitar work. The reason I loved the artic monkeys was the same reason I liked the hives, something you could dance to so to speak. Upbeat. I think they probably alienated a lot of listeners who knew them before for this reason. Its just not the same.
Having said all that, musicly i find this cd fantastic. To be honest it did take a few listens, but the lyrics and the perfect timing of subtle guitar riffs will just blow you away. The bass lines are perfectly fit into the music, nothing over powers or is lost in the translation. If I had to put what they did into a phrase it would be: They grew up.
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Fine Contender for Best of '09 by Tyler S. (Brentwood, CA United States)  4 Stars
October 27, 2009
I picked this album up out of impulse, and I was largely rewarded. I had heard no Arctic Monkeys beforehand, but this album has had a lot of praise. So I bought it, and after a few listens the whole album nearly grew on me. It sounds like a more mystical Queens of the Stone Age/Muse. At first, like everyone else, I didn't really dig it, but after a while I couldn't stop listening to it. The whole album is filled with phenomenal bass and drums complimented with catchy guitar riffs and dark melodies. Instrumentally its an amazing album. The frontman had to grow on me, but by now I'm singing all the songs with him.
So I'll agree with the rest of the reviews and say, Let the album grow on you. The only songs i liked right off the bat were "Dangerous Animals" and "Dance Little Liar". I will also say that those songs are the best on the cd, in my opinion. Other awesome tracks include "Pretty Visitors", "Crying Lightning", "Potion Approaching" and "Fire and the Thud." The album has a sort of moody stubborn style, which separates it from the formula rock albums. The concept of the album is what keeps you listening to it. It an album that moves you slowly but steadily.
Songs like "Cornerstone" and "The Jeweller's Hands" are yet to grow on me and I doubt they will.
This being my first Arctic Monkeys album, I'm quite impressed. I hope to pick up more of their cds in the future, because they seem like the type of band to always bring something new to the table. This album has a unique concept and it doesn't sound like any regular rock album. They have, possibly, the best bassist and drummer out there in the business right now. This album is a huge success and is now largely owned by way more than just their fan base. I had no previous experience in listening to this band, and now i gotta say that I'm a fan. I listen to bands who are concerned with making art instead of selling cds. Arctic Monkeys are true artists and this album is a beautiful work of art.
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Punchy and Peppy by Kurt Harding (Boerne TX) 5 Stars
October 03, 2009
Like most reviewers of Humbug, I am quite delighted by this new Arctic Monkeys effort. It certainly proves to me that the band has staying power. The CD is not particularly long, but you get ten mostly excellent punchy, peppy songs and the great delivery fans have gotten used to. My favorites are: My Propeller, which to me is evocative of 60s "underground" rock; the driving Crying Lightning; the brief but pounding Potion Approaching; another pounder with Pretty Visitors, and The Jeweller's Hands which I find to be Humbug's most interesting piece.
This CD is a fine collection of songs which should show the listener that rock music still has something new to say after all. Importantly, the booklet that accompanies the CD contains the lyrics. If you are not listening to the Arctic Monkeys, you are missing out.
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Different sound by K. Martin (NY) 4 Stars
September 30, 2009
Product arrived quickly, in good condition, and I've had no issues
The Arctic Monkeys sound is growing up and it continues to rock
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Good songs, bad album by Ariel (Alexandria, VA, USA)  3 Stars
September 28, 2009
It's hard for me to say this, but this album is a disappointment. I loved the Arctic Monkeys since "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not", but this album hit me like a ton of bricks.
The songs, if taken in isolation, are good and remind me a bit of The Doors; the sound is a bit seventyish. However, taken all together, the album sounds forced as if they're trying to one-up themselves or prove to the world that they are mature and that they are deeper than thou. The sad thing is that this band is talented and shouldn't have work this hard.
From the first track, "My Propeller" to the last track, "The Jeweller's Hand", the album plays like an exhausting, endless dirge that seems as if it was dedicated to some chthonic god. I had to listen to it in chunks. Seriously, I'd recommend shuffling the songs in your iPod or MP3 player with other songs just to break up the downer that this album is.
I've noticed that many bands, go through these phases where they start out peppy, but to prove they are serious, they go darker and deeper and more focused; they consider their earlier efforts too broad and simple for them. I get it! We get it! Enough already.
I get the impression that this band just isn't comfortable in their skin (yet!). They ought to take a look at U2 and Pearl Jam and see why these guys are still cool after nearly 30 and 20 years respectively.
Even the album cover is awful: they look like drug addicts. I mean, if I were putting out a new album, I'd fix myself up a little. A hair cut? Some clean clothes?
Just like a piece of art, a meal, or an edifice, albums need to make sense. An album is a work of art AND at the same time a commoditized product that will be consumed by the masses. As I said above, the songs by themselves are good, but in this dire collection, they don't work. I'm giving it three stars because songs such as "Crying Lightning", "Dangerous Animals", and "The Jeweller's Hand".
I hope their next album diverges from this mess.
Sorry guys, not good enough.
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