So 00’s albums: Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

Passiamo dal 2005 al 2006 (per una sola tappa) con un debutto fulminante quanto importante, sia dal lato musicale sia dal lato del music business: “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” degli Arctic Monkeys.

Un debutto che arrivò dopo mesi e mesi di hype generato dal passa parola, da MySpace e dall’ EP “Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys”. Un album musicalmente ancora abbastanza immaturo ma decisamente interessante, soprattutto considerata la giovanissima età dei componenti del gruppo (Alex Turner, il leader della band non aveva ancora 20 anni). Immediato, fresco e british fino al midollo, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” incoronò gli Arctic Monkeys come la più grande delle “next big things”.

Dopo “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”, la band ci mise solo un’anno a realizzare il secondo album (il buon “Favourite Worst Nightmare”), che li riaffermò su scala internazionale.

Quest’anno gli Arctic Monkeys sono tornati con “Humbug” (che abbiamo recensito), l’album della maturità e di una decisa svolta “americana”. Don’t believe the hype.

I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

When the Sun Goes Down

The View From the Afternoon

Fake Tales of San Francisco

Dancing Shoes

Altri album del 2006 “da salvare”:

Agalloch – Ashes Against The Grain
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
Amon Amarth – With Oden on Our Side
Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
Belle and Sebastian – Belle and Sebastian
Bob Dylan – Modern Times
Brand New – The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Built to Spill – You in Reverse
Cat Power – The Greatest
Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards
Converge – No Heroes
Cult of Luna – Somewhere Along the Highway
Damien Rice – 9
Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
Guillemots – Through the Windowpane
Hot Chip – The Warning
Isis – In the Absence of Truth
Islands – Return to the Sea
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Ballad of the Broken Seas
J Dilla – Donuts
Joanna Newsom – Ys
Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways
Katatonia – The Great Cold Distance
Liars – Drum’s Not Dead
Mastodon – Blood Mountain
Mono – You Are There
Morrissey – Ringleader of the Tormentors
Protest The Hero – Kleiza
Scott Walker – The Drift
Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
Tiga – Sexor
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
The Flaming Lips – At War with the Mystics
The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
The Killers – Sam’s Town
The Knife – Silent Shout
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
The Roots – Game Theory
Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Tool – 10000 Days
TV On The Radio – Return To Crooked Mountain
Uochi Toki – Laze Biose
Wolfmother – Wolfmother
Wolves in the Throne Room – Diadem of 12 Stars
Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass