The Hives frontman Pelle Almqvist says Arctic Monkeys ought to keep it up making the music that “feels proper” to them.
Alex Turner and co’s current albums have seen them head in an area rock path, however some followers of their early information – such because the noughties hits ‘I Wager You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ and ‘Mardy Bum’ – are a lot into their newest stuff, together with newest LP ‘The Automobile’.
Pelle, who not too long ago supported the indie rockers on the highway, is a fan of every part they do and hopes they proceed to make the music they need to make.
Requested what it was like supporting the ‘Snap Out Of It’ group, he instructed Music Week: “Nice. No complaints. A+ tour. Everybody was very nice to us. There have been a s***-ton of individuals watching the exhibits. We obtained paid decently. It was actually f****** enjoyable and the climate was superb all through the entire tour. Additionally, I like Arctic Monkeys. I feel they’re just about the one good actually large band I do know [laughs].”
Requested about their polarising albums, he replied: “I feel they need to do what feels proper. I feel every part they’ve completed has been good, it is simply completely different genres. I can see that somebody who cherished the primary album possibly is not into the final album and vice-versa, however who provides a s***? They’re doing what they really feel like they need to be doing and that is all there may be to it. I like all their stuff, mainly.”
Pelle’s feedback come after Damon Albarn mentioned Arctic Monkeys had been the “final nice guitar band” earlier than the style’s current resurgence.
The Blur and Gorillaz star admits guitar music had gotten “so sterile”, and although there are bands with a “large quantity of potential” coming by way of, Damon, 55, nonetheless believes the ‘505’ rockers cannot be overwhelmed.
He instructed the ‘Damaged Document’ podcast: “I really feel like there’s a bit extra pleasure about guitar music once more, that may’t be a foul factor as a result of it obtained so sterile. For me, the final nice guitar band would have been Arctic Monkeys and I don’t actually know if there’s something nearly as good as that since.
“However now there are bands with an enormous quantity of potential. It’s actually dismantled itself, guitar music, and put itself again collectively once more in a distinct type. You’ve obtained some implausible new mutations of the genius of it.”
