Alex Turner

Congratulations to Alex Turner and Miles Kane of The Last Shadow Puppets. Their debut album, The Age Of The Understatement entered the UK Album Charts at #1 today. Nice work, lads! It’s young Mr Turner’s third consecutive #1 record, both Arctic Monkeys albums went directly to number one upon release. Congratulations are also in order for formidable indie label Domino Records, this is their 5th top spot placing in two and a half years! Along with the Arctic Monkeys records they hit the top of the charts with both Franz Ferdinand albums. We love Domino a whole lot and not just for their formidable chart placings; Domino has some of our very favorite bands on their books: The Kills, Animal Collective, Cinematic Orchestra, Bonde Do Role, Benjy Ferree, Lightspeed Champion, These New Puritans, Sons & Daughters and Yo Majesty. And now they’ve signed the incredibly brilliant Brooklyn-based Dirty Projectors.

The Last Shadow Puppets will be announcing some live shows in the USA very soon. Watch this space!

The Last Shadow Puppets made their TV debut last night in the UK, appearing - with full string section - on Later With Jools Holland.

And here they are performing acoustic at Avatar Studios in New York earlier this year:

And here they are acoustic again for Fader TV:

The album The Age Of The Understatement is far from acoustic, it’s lush with strings and orchestration - courtesy of Owen Pallet of Final Fantasy - and was produced by the very wonderful James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco. It’s a truly stunning debut. Find it on Domino Records from April 21st.

Watch this space for US tour dates.

The Last Shadow Puppets played TWO secret shows in New York this week. The Sound Fix show on Tuesday was superb fun, and they played again on Wednesday night at Cake Shop. Alex Turner and Miles Kane didn’t have a full band, they were performing stripped down versions of their songs with just their guitars, but the result was pretty damn special all the same. For a glimpse of the full-blown sound of the record check out their first video, for title single The Age Of The Understatement. Filmed in Moscow. Brrrr…..

Posted by: CW