Arctic Monkeys
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Domino

Brash’n’brave’n’brazen beyond observational contempt, the Arctic Monkeys second album Favourite Worst Nightmare, is a lyrically trajectoral, social/teenage/dissertation on today’s Britain; replete with icosahedronic fishnet dialogue, ASBO persuasion and caustic musicality - the latter of which, could only have been recorded by four chippy white blokes from either Portsmouth or Sheffield.

From the opening gambit of ‘Brainstorm’ (for that is what it is), to the Richard Hurleyesque ‘Only Ones Who Know’ (in which chief Monkey Alex Turner concludes: ‘’true romance can’t be achieved these days’’) to the penultimate rock laden ‘Old Yellow Bricks’ - this album is a mighty magnificent piece of work that follows in the intrepid steps of The Jam, The Smiths, The Strokes and The Libertines (which ain’t bad company).