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Arctic Monkeys perform The Ultracheese on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Immediate and tightly structured, Suck It and See is laugh-out-loud funny and start-to-finish brilliant. This is an album in love with language, though perhaps the sound of it more than the meaning. In any case, we’ll take a spot of creative dot-joining over another bloody song about the loneliness of the indie disco wallflower any day. True to the topsy-turvy nature of Suck It And See, things end on a beginning. “You’re not the only one that time has got it in for”, is the album’s final assurance, a reminder that they’re as fallible as the rest of us. On form like this, however, that just doesn’t ring true.

Maybe I shouldn’t ever have called that thing friendly at all

marsha p. johnson and sylvia rivera, founders of STAR and the first pride parades, in 1989

@ Rock en Seine, Paris

(08.26.2016)  ©