The Last Shadow Puppets

What do you get when you mix the talent of two famous English musicians? These guys. Miles Kane and Alex Turner met up whilst on a tour for the Arctic Monkeys, for whom Turner sings. Kane was the guitarist for the Little Flames, which went on tour with them. They became friends and then when the little Flames came on tour again in 2007 Miles Kane played guitar for the Arctic Monkeys final track, 505. They decided to collaborate their skills and write some music together. The band, the Last Shadow Puppets, was created in 2007 and released its first album, the Age of the Understatement, on February 20th, 2008.

The songs combined the best of their two bands, the amazing voice of Alex Turner, which was some what lacked in the Little Flames' songs and the beautiful melodic guitar play of Miles Kane. In the Arctic Monkeys' previous songs the guitar play had been a lot harder, with an almost metallic touch, while the Little Flames had used more bass to create a softer sound. According to the band they took this softer sound from their influence from the beetles.

After they released their album it rose to number one on the UK album charts and became a contender for the 2008 Mercury Music Award but lost to Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid. They later released My Mistakes were made for you.














So these songs won't play on Blogger... but they're really really really good. So here are the links:

My mistakes were made for you

Calm like you