Polski opis

Opis:
To był jeden z najbardziej oczekiwanych debiutów w historii muzyki na Wyspach Brytyjskich. Czwórka nastolatków z Sheffield jeszcze przed wydaniem płyty "zaliczyła" dwa Numery Jeden na singlowej liście przebojów ("I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" i "When The Sun Goes Down"), a w pierwszym dniu po premierze płyty ilość sprzedanych egzemplarzy w Wielkiej Brytanii szła w setki tysięcy egzemplarzy! Co ciekawe, za sukcesem debiutu Arctic Monkeys nie szła żadna machina promocyjna i wsparcie wytwórni płytowej. Zespół zyskał sobie wiarygodność i zarazem popularność u fanów, udostępniając swoje utwory za darmo na oficjalnej stronie internetowej. Taka taktyka przyniosła niebywałe efekty. Muzyka Arctic Monkeys to typowe dla Wysp postpunkowe, gitarowe granie. Kwartet odróżnia jednak od masy innych tego typu wykonawców talent do pisania bardzo chwytliwych melodii. Dzięki temu piosenki zespołu brzmią bardzo świeżo i przebojowo, nie tracąc jednak "niezależnej" szorstkości.
Źródło: muzyka.interia.pl

 English description

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Breathless, hyperbolic praise was piled upon Arctic Monkeys and their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, an instant phenomenon without peer. Within the course of a year, the band rose from the ranks of an Internet phenomenon to the biggest band in the U.K., all on the strength of early demos circulated on the Web as MP3s. Those demos built the band a rabid fan base before the Monkeys had released a record, even before they played more than a handful of gigs. In effect, the group performed a complete run around the industry, avoiding conventional routes toward stardom, which paid off in spades. When Whatever People Say I Am hit the streets in January 2006, it sold a gob-smacking 118,501 copies within its first week of release, which not only made it the fastest-selling debut ever, but it sold more than the rest of the Top 20 combined -- a remarkable achievement by any measure.
Last time such excitement surrounded a new British guitar band it was a decade earlier, as Britpop hit overdrive with the release of Oasis' 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe. All four members of Arctic Monkeys were a little bit shy of their tenth birthday at the time, a bit young to be sure, but old enough to have Oasis be their first favorite band. So, it's little surprise that the Gallaghers' laddism -- celebrating nights out fueled by lager and loud guitars -- is the bedrock foundation of Arctic Monkeys, just the way as it has been for most British rock bands since the mid-'90s, but the Monkeys' true musical ground zero is 2001, the year the Strokes stormed British consciousness with their debut, Is This It. Arctic Monkeys borrow heavily from the Strokes' stylized ennui, adding an equal element of the Libertines' shambolic neo-classicist punk, undercut by a hint of dance-punk learned from Franz Ferdinand. But where the Strokes, the Libertines, and Franz all knowingly reference the past, this Sheffield quartet is only concerned with the now, piecing together elements of their favorite bands as lead singer/songwriter Alex Turner tells stories from their lives -- mainly hookups on the dancefloor and underage drinking, balanced by the occasional imagined tragic tales of prostitution and the music industry.
Source: allmusic.com