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Arctic Monkeys/The Last Shadow Puppets
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The Arctic Monkeys story reads like the carefully spun tale of a myth-raking publicist. Really, now — these guys formed a band because they were bored? And, four years later, they just [i]happened[/i] to deliver the U.K.'s fastest-selling debut since Oasis' [i]Definitely Maybe[/i]? Well, yeah. A "MySpace sensation" according to the more than 225,000 Brits who picked up [i]Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not[/i] in its first week, the Monkeys are the sound of brash and bratty 20-somethings reared on the Beatles and Bowie as much as Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand. In other words, they write perfect, guitar-guided pop songs, whether they're as deceptively simple as the brain-burrowing wordplay of "Fluorescent Adolescent" and the lawn-mower riffs of "Brianstorm" or as rich and unapologetically nostalgic as those of the Last Shadow Puppets, a side project that reveals the Phil Spector-ish visions of frontman Alex Turner and such collaborators as James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco and Arcade Fire arranger Owen Pallett.