Customer Reviews
Wonderful 60's style sentimental lovelyness! - By: Aly cat 50, 05 Aug 2008 
I must admit I was cynical initially but I loved the Opening track 'The Age of Understatement' & was hooked after hearing 'Standing next to me'so brought the CD. Its an album full of lush strings,feelings & warmth.The songs border on the 'lovely' & are well crafted. Love the vocals esp on 'meeting place' & The time has come - both such 60's sounding film tracks. I'm a fan of metal & Rock ( Dillinger Escape Plan & Deftones ) but this album is so 'sentimental' that it will melt the most hardened metal heart- as its done with me- call me a big softie why dont you?
AWFUL - By: Mr. Marcus D. Griffiths, 30 Jun 2008 
I'd give it a 0 if i could.
it was that bad
it's obvious the band were just put together to get as much sales as possible, the music is awful
if still go n buy it then it's your loss i warned you!
Shocking - By: Michael Eckhardt, 25 Jun 2008 Simply awful. Tired, lazy lyrics which pertain to be deep & meaningful but are woefully convoluted. And just terrible music. Overblown pap.
Voice of a Generation and ..who? - By: John Woods, 13 Jun 2008 
A lovely debut from maybe Britians cutest male duet but is it only famous because of the legacy of Alex Turner?
The strings of Age of the understatement kicksin followed by miltary drums & sweeping strings galore. The pair racing through the lyrics like hurdles. I must say the title track lives to its title it is a big understatement. 2nd track "Standing next to me" makes you feel like your shooshing through the swiss alpsin a classic car. With Alex Turner showing that fast indie rock is not the only trick up his sleeve. "Calm like You" is a large swooping landscape yet again with ... yes you guessed it Alex Turner on lead vocals again but an enjoyable song all the least, referring to a realtionship falling apart " I am craving heartbreak as you are making your demands". "Separate & ever deadly now" & whats this? another voice? This must be the Miles Kane the 2nd shadow puppet as he's referred as. Miles earns his stripesin this song showing that he is not shadowed by Alex (Shadowed Gettit? Oh don't worry) The music is now getting quite samey now & dragging on but still a lovely accompiant to the stunning poetry of lyrics. "The Chamber" giving a different slant on a winning formalua with a story of a torture chamber probably? The Highlight of the album being "My Mistakes were made for you"
Strings, Guitar, Brass etc spot on. A chorus of "It was fame that put wordsin her mouth, she could'nt help but spit them out, innocence & arrogance entwined,in the filthest of minds" Timelessness is the only way to describe "MMWMFY". The remander of the tracks are all the samein the way that there is nothing more to the album than the tracks i've outlined.
If it was only 6 tracks i would have said that the album was a masterpiece. But the other tracks let it down slightly showing that Timelessness is a good thing but trying to the same thing all over an album is not a very good thing.
Andrew Snickett
(1st Review)
probably best if you like the monkeys - By: Blue Naters, 25 May 2008 
I like Alex Turner's voice so as he sings most of the time he is on to a winner already.
They manage to make the 60s retro sound interesting (Duffy how come you can't). Quirky lyrics well delivered. Not bad at all.
Busy production & orchesteral/big band sounds means it doesn't make it all the way through very oftenin out house.
