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Most telling, perhaps, is how ‘Tranquility Base…’s opening track casts Turner. ‘Four Out of Five’ has him welcoming us to the rooftop taqueria he’s running on the title track, meanwhile, he answers the phone at the eponymous resort’s front desk with “ Mark speaking, please tell me, how may I direct your call?” He claims to have “ played to quiet rooms like this before” on ‘One Point Perspective’, which would be a peculiar admission from the frontman of a band that have been one of the biggest in the world in the decade-plus since their first album was released and that, even before that, played most of their early shows in front of a vocal cult following. Throughout ‘Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino’, he shifts shape constantly. Perhaps the cod-American accent that he debuted at Glastonbury back in 2013, the one that made him sound like south Yorkshire’s premier Elvis impersonator, wasn’t just the result of him moving to the Hollywood Hills. Assuming, of course, that it’s still him. The early reports on this sixth Arctic Monkeys record suggest that it’s closer to an Alex Turner solo effort than any of the previous five.
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