The Age of the Understatement
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| Studio album by The Last Shadow Puppets | ||||
| Released | 15 April 2008 | |||
| Recorded | August 2007 | |||
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| Length | 35:10 | |||
| Label | Domino | |||
| Producer | James Ford | |||
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| Singles from The Age of the Understatement | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 77/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
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| Mojo | |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.7/10 |
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The Age of the Understatement is the debut album by The Last Shadow Puppets, featuring Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane of The Rascals and James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco. It was released on 21 April 2008 in the UK, following the release of their eponymous single in the previous week. It entered the UK Album Chart at No. 1 on 27 April 2008. The album was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize.
The album was recorded in Black Box Studios, France, and RAK Studios in London, England. The duo claimed the album was influenced by the music of Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson, The Electric Prunes' Mass in F Minor, and Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly soundtrack.
The album art consists of a photo of a model named Gill photographed by Sam Haskins in 1962.
The Age of the Understatement received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 25 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
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