Arctic Monkeys, Favourite Worst Nightmare Review

Overall Rating

A great follow up, some absolute bangers and an overall more mature sound.

Not as many up front, memorable tunes as the debut.

Arctic Monkeys are back with Favourite Worst Nightmare, and this is a fantastic follow up. The majority of the songs are perhaps not as up front and bold as on Whatever People Say I am That's What I'm Not but do not underestimate... By no means is this a difficult second album. The opening track Brianstorm is an absolute banger with the bands signature hard riffs, fluid guitars and lyrics with attitude. Follow up single Fluorescent Adolescent is wonderfully melodic and Alex Turner's voice seems to have matured from that of a ballsy teenager to a fully fledged lyricist and frontman; Old Yellow Bricks with it's siren like guitars is another stomper of a tune and the album is brilliantly closed with 505, a quietly confident epic of a song.

Overall, this is a brilliant coming of age album for a band that we expected so much of after such a fantastic debut. The Arctic Monkeys keep it fresh with their good old fashioned, no nonsense rock n' roll and fans will not be disappointed. I predict that this band are going to be around for a while.