While it is unmistakably Arctic Monkeys, everything’s a little more muscular and aggressive as the rhythm section of Matt Helders and Nick O’ Malley have locked horns with one another on the first new material since O’ Malley joined on full-time.

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The first two singles from the album, " Brianstorm" and " Fluorescent Adolescent", were both UK top-10 hits. But there’s a lyric in the ’D is for Dangerous' song, and it seemed to tick all the boxes for what we were after in a title. The band said they also considered naming the album Lesbian Wednesdays, Gordon Brown, or Gary Barlow. In its first week of release, Favourite Worst Nightmare sold 227,993 copies, [27] emulating Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not in going straight to number one on the UK Albums Chart, albeit selling 130,000 copies fewer than the band's record-breaking debut.

This marks the second consecutive time the band used a photograph taken in Liverpool as an album cover, following their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. The music on Favourite Worst Nightmare has been characterised as post-punk revival, [5] [6] [7] indie rock, [7] [8] garage rock, [7] and post-Britpop.

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In the fast forward vein they still deliver their best, fronted by Alex Turner's trajectory of images that sometimes seems like alternative's free association answer to rap. We did a session with [producers] James Ford and Mike Crossley on the last record and got on really well, and wanted to do something else – all year round I was thinking, ‘I want to try with them two…’. one can hear the great detail that has been put into the arrangement and structure of the song, yet if feels completely effortless at the same time.It has a score of 82 on Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100, based on 38 reviews. His full length debut on Daptone Records is equal parts raw feeling and elegance and exudes confidence and charm. Included is that propulsive assertion for "D Is for Dangerous" with some scathing words for some wayward girl known as "Your favourite worst nightmare". Over the last few months he has disarmed packed rooms of rowdy concert goers, leaving them silent as they hold fast to every syllable sung. Overall, they add some texture and, as the title suggests, the darker aspects of their brain hemispheres for the lyrics.

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The album's title came from the lyrics to the song "D is for Dangerous", the third song featured on the album. Recorded at Miloco Garden, London, Eastcote Studios, London, Motor Museum, Liverpool and Konk Studios, London. Sometimes the trajectory flows like a dream; at other times the whole project is ordinary and stuck in idle. Arctic Monkeys’2007 sophomore album comes hurtling out of the gate with “Brianstorm,” which is also the first single. There's are no significant differences between this version and the 2013 repress Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare.In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. Retrospectively, the album is considered the start of the band's change of sound with each of their albums after their debut. In its first week of release, the album sold over 227,000 copies in the United Kingdom, going straight to number one on the UK Albums Chart. The record itself embodies a more seasoned and worldly perspective that reflects the attitudes of the band members themselves; put simply, it’s got more of a bite to it. In comparison to the band's debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, the album has been described as "very, very fast and very, very loud", [10] being seen as "more ambitious, heavier.