The Last Shadow Puppets are an English supergroup featuring members from Arctic Monkeys, The Rascals, Simian Mobile Disco, and Mini Mansions. The band focuses on baroque pop, a style that combines rock and classical music. They have two studio albums released eight years apart from each other.
Band members:
- Alex Turner – vocals, guitar, bass, baritone guitar, tambourine, keyboards (2007–present)
- Miles Kane – vocals, guitar, bass, saxophone (2007–present)
- James Ford – drums, percussion, organ, piano, keyboards, production (2007–present)
- Zach Dawes – bass, guitar (2015–present)
Discography:
- The Age of the Understatement (2008)
- Everything You've Come to Expect (2016)
EPs:
- My Mistakes Were Made for You (2008)
- The Dream Synopsis (2016)
And your love is troping next to me...
- Album Closure: "Time Has Come Again" and "The Dream Synopsis" both fit, as they are both much softer and downbeat than the songs before them.
- Break Up Song: "Standing Next to Me", "I Don't Like You Anymore", and "Everything You've Come to Expect". "Used to Be My Girl" is the aftermath of one.
- Character Title: "Miracle Aligner"
- Deliberately Monochrome: Both studio albums' covers fall into this.
- Downer Ending: "Time Has Come Again", a song about a man lamenting a dead friend/partner, is the closer for the first album.
- Grief Song: "The Meeting Place", "Time Has Come Again".
- Lighter and Softer: While the edge of the lyrics hasn't gone away, 'Everything You've Come to Expect' certainly has a softer sound to it.
- Limited Lyrics Song: "Bad Habits"
- Lyrical Cold Open: "Only the Truth".
- Lyrical Dissonance: "The Meeting Place", perhaps the happiest-sounding song off the first album, is about a man who can't even sleep at night because his lost love haunts him.
- Miniscule Rocking: A majority of songs on 'The Age of the Understatement' are under three minutes. The whole album clocks in at 35 minutes.
- Obsession Song: "Used to Be My Girl" can be read as one, especially with how much darker it sounds than any other song on the album.
- One-Word Title: "Sequels", "Aviation", and "Pattern".
- Silly Love Songs: "Sweet Dreams, TN".
- Singer Name Drop: While he doesn't sing in that particular song, Miles is mentioned in "The Dream Synopsis".
- Surprisingly Gentle Song: The last songs on both albums, though "Time Has Come Again" doesn't fit in the lyrical sense.
- Precision F-Strike: The Last Shadow Puppets almost never swear in their songs... except for "Sweet Dreams, TN" which gives us uses of "dick" and "fuck".
- Textless Album Cover: Everything You've Come to Expect.
- Title Drop: Every song of theirs, except "Black Plant", "Pattern", "The Dream Synopsis", and "The Bourne Identity".
- Title Track: All of their releases have one.
- Vocal Tag Team: Alex and Miles.
