#I'm one of those rare fans that greatly prefers their later work

[glorious-blackout]

I do have a Spotify! I also have a five-hour journey home tomorrow so the music recommendations are highly appreciated 😁

As for later Arctic Monkeys recs, it’s hard to narrow down songs I love on TBHC and The Car but I’ll try my best! I suspect you might like AM more than I do as well - the only song I really love from it is Fireside but the album is beloved by the fandom so it might appeal to you more 😅

From TBHC I can highly recommend the singles Four Out Of Five and Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (including the videos, which are so intriguing I’m still upset they only made two), alongside The Ultracheese, One Point Perspective and American Sports.

For The Car my favourites are Sculptures of Anything Goes, The Car, Hello You, Mr Schwartz and Perfect Sense. That being said, I genuinely love every song on that album - the lush, cinematic orchestrations alone make it my joint fave alongside TBHC 🥰

As a bonus I can recommend some TLSP songs seeing as Alex’s work with Miles seems to have helped inspire AM’s latter catalogue: The Age of the Understatement, The Meeting Place, Black Paint, Aviation, Miracle Aligner, Is This What You Wanted and Les Cactus (the latter is very silly which is why I love it so much 😉). 

@glorious-blackout The Mysterines are amazing! They're a brand new band from Liverpool, but you'd never know it by listening to them. They were a fave on my show when their album was coming out last year - debut album, and I had no idea until I properly looked into it because they sound so well done and well produced! They're a proper rock band :)

You would hardly guess that this was a first-EP song, would you?

Inhaler... I might not have recommended them a year ago, they were putting out fairly standard indie rock/pop in 2021... I think they were the first Irish band in a long time to top the UK album charts? With a debut album too! It was good stuff, but nothing new I guess. Their second album is on its way, and now I actually think the new stuff is worth checking out! (This is Bono from U2's son's band, and they were straying... a bit too close to U2 territory, but they're really finding their own sound now!) They're putting out some really playful indie pop; they want to be a pop band now, that's great, good for them!

(the new album's called Cuts And Bruises, I plan to sit and listen to it! I'm only speaking from having heard the singles released ahead of the album right now 😅)

Hives have been around for a while I think! I just never really listened to them 😅