Actually, that’s a fairly accurate depiction of two thirds of the record – an introspective, self-referential soul, stabbing at the piano after a heavy night or five. It’s impossible to listen to the record without picturing Turner twinkling the keys, alone in the dark, mumbling to himself about the state of the world and the price of vintage leather jackets these days. The liner notes for penultimate track Batphone even list him behind the drum kit, leaving hard-hitting Monkeys powerhouse Matt Helders to go pick up the Martinis, presumably.

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is, essentially, an Alex Turner solo album. It seems befitting then, that with Arctic Monkeys’ follow-up album, Turner and the boys have sent rock and roll into the cosmos. In Turner’s award-clutching paws, though, it became a mantra for modern rock’s last great iconic figure proof that they were leading the charge forward.

In the wrong hands, such a speech would’ve come off like your half-racist uncle espousing the lack of ‘real music’ on the radio ‘these bloody days’. But who better to comment on the changing tide of guitar music than its standard bearer? A one-time Sheffield lad turned transatlantic, model-handsome heartthrob, Turner to this day epitomises the guitar-strumming, gum-chewing American-adoptive ideal – the rock and roll dream incarnate. When the Arctic Monkeys frontman and Another Man cover star took to the soon-to-be-dropped mic to pontificate on how “rock and roll, it just won’t go away” at the 2014 BRIT Awards, he was met with bemusement, to put it politely. gifs, and ridicule, Alex Turner was in many ways always right.

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