
A thick, syrupy sludge replaces the band's signature high-speed garage energy, as if the songs have been dragged through the dust of the Mojave Desert.
The guitars vibrate with a heavy, sand-choked distortion, while a persistent carnivalesque dread creeps in through swirling vintage organs and a deliberate, heavy-footed drum stomp. The songwriting abandons kitchen-sink realism for cryptic, nocturnal character studies that demand deep listening.
How does Humbug sound next to the rest of Arctic Monkeys's catalogue?
Desert saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.
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