The Last Shadow Puppets release new single
The latest single from The Last Shadow Puppets, an ambiguous song about love, fame and destruction is Miles Kane and Alex Turner’s most pleasing piece of work so far. With a heart-wrenching string arrangement from the London Metropolitan Orchestra, conducted by onetime Arcade Fire violinist Owen Pallett (aka Final Fantasy), the song has a wistful and romantic edge to it.
Alex Turner’s voice occasionally threatens to revert to the aggressive, quick-fire Arctic Monkeys mode of delivery, but he manages to restrain it, and with the help of some heavy reverb, almost recalls the psychedelia of the some of The Beatles later work.
Influences cited by the band themselves include Scott Walker, and ‘My Mistakes Were Made For You’ is truly a return to the romanticism of this sort of song writing. Perhaps there are also elements of the group’s Sheffield contemporary Richard Hawley, and I certainly hear a more conventional version of The Coral in this song.
‘My Mistakes Were Made For You’ is the third single to be taken from The Last Shadow Puppets’ debut album ‘The Age Of The Understatement’, and will be released on Domino Records on the 20th of October.
They are currently on tour for the first ever time on the back of some successful festival performances, and will be performing at the BBC Electric Proms on the 24th October.
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