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Lana Del Rey’s ‘Blue Banisters’ is lyrical heaven, her best work to date

The Daily Californian 26 Oct 2021
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Blue Banisters’ is lyrical heaven, her best work to date Universal Music/Courtesy. Grade. 4.5/5.0 ... One of the best songs, if not the best song on the tracklist is “Dealer,” featuring Miles Kane of the British rock duo The Last Shadow Puppets ... Ian Fredrickson covers music. Contact him at ifredrickson@dailycal.org. The Daily Californian .
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Lana Del Rey review, Blue Banisters: One revelation colours the singer’s entire body of work

The Independent 22 Oct 2021
The album credits show Del Rey working with a wider range of writers and producers than usual, including friends The Last Shadow Puppets, hip-hop producer Mike Dean, ex-boyfriend Barrie-James O’Neill, and even Italian composer Ennio Morricone ... The last track, “Sweet Carolina”, was co-written with her father and sister.
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Lana Del Rey Delivers Stark Americana With Blue Banisters

Spin 22 Oct 2021
Blue has always been Lana Del Rey’s color ... pop supergroup The Last Shadow Puppets, apparently recorded in some form in 2017. “Dealer,” a thrilling blues-tinged track, is a duet with Puppets (and ex-Rascals) frontman Miles Kane, who takes the first verse before Del Rey wails with previously unseen volume, passion and frustration ... .
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Lana Del Rey – ‘Blue Banisters’ review: a defiant and delicate return

NME 22 Oct 2021
There are songs like the ‘Mr Brightside’-referencing ‘Thunder’ that were written with members of The Last Shadow Puppets, with whom she formed a friendship band in 2017, while Miles Kane takes the reins on the jazzy ‘Dealer’.
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Lana Del Rey: Blue Banisters review – as perplexing as she is captivating

The Observer 22 Oct 2021
Despite some misguided early philosophising, the pandemic has not turned out to be a great leveller ... It can make an artist’s work seem less special, an impression compounded here by the inclusion of offcuts from 2014’s Ultraviolence and an abandoned 2017 collaborative album with Alex Turner and Miles Kane’s side project the Last Shadow Puppets ... .
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Premature Evaluation: Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters

Stereogum 20 Oct 2021
He’s replaced by an assortment of co-writers and producers, most frequently Drew Erickson (Weyes Blood, Tim Heidecker), Gabe Simon (Maroon 5, Mat Kearney), and Zachary Dawes, the bassist for side-project rockers the Last Shadow Puppets and Mini Mansions ... There are sublime stretches on the album, but it slows and dulls in the last few songs.
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Tom Grennan inspired by Elton John, Amy Winehouse and more for Evering Road

Music News 09 Oct 2021
Tom Grennan was inspired by Sir Elton John, Amy Winehouse and Alex Turner for 'Evering Road' ... Amy’s voice ... When it comes to Alex Turner, he revealed his admiration for the way the Arctic Monkeys and Last Shadow Puppets star "makes people think through music" ... .
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Miles Kane announces huge 2022 UK tour

NME 06 Sep 2021
Kane announced ‘Change The Show’ last month, and also shared its first single, ‘Don’t Let It Get You Down... crisis throughout the last 18 months ... Last month, Kane teased that he’ll potentially perform some Last Shadow Puppets songs during his upcoming solo gigs.
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‘Hollywood Remixed’: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on Updating ‘Candyman’ Into “Story of How Young Black Men in America Become Unwilling Martyrs”

The Hollywood Reporter 27 Aug 2021
It’s lasted so much longer than slavery ... One of the things that has really stuck out to me, and I’ve rewatched it several times, is the shadow-puppet trailer that was released last year where you see different Black people over centuries being killed in brutal ways and becoming the new interpretation of Candyman.
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Miles Kane's upcoming album features Paul O'Grady and Corrine Bailey Rae

Music News 24 Aug 2021
The Last Shadow Puppets star has released the lead single, 'Don't Let It Get You Down', which features a spoken-word clip by the fellow Wirrall entertainer, 66, and the track-listing reveals the 'Put Your Record On' hitmaker appears on the track 'Nothing's Ever Gonna Be Good Enough'.
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Miles Kane announces “uplifting” fourth album ‘Change The Show’

NME 24 Aug 2021
READ MORE ... “This album was born out of an intense period of self-reflection; having all this unexpected time on my hands,” Kane explained of working amid the coronavirus crisis throughout the last 18 months ... CREDIT ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... Last month, Kane teased that he’ll potentially perform some Last Shadow Puppets songs during his upcoming solo gigs. .
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Stephen Fretwell: 'Gavin and Stacey song was as good as a part-time job'

BBC News 17 Jul 2021
It was recorded in almost one take, in around two hours last summer, with producer and Speedy Wunderground indie label boss Dan Carey ... Back in 2008, before the first chapter of his musical story came to an end, Fretwell moonlighted as a bass player on tour with The Last Shadow Puppets - the side project of Alex Turner from The Arctic Monkeys.
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Miles Kane teases Last Shadow Puppets songs for upcoming shows

NME 14 Jul 2021
Miles Kane has teased that he will potentially perform some Last Shadow Puppets songs during his upcoming solo shows ... In a follow-up tweet, the singer said he had been in talks with “the big guy” – presumably his friend and Last Shadow Puppets bandmate, Alex Turner – about potential setlist options.
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Singer-songwriter Stephen Fretwell returns: ‘I took a leap that cost me my marriage’

The Observer 08 Jul 2021
In 2018, Stephen Fretwell was sitting in a class at the college where he had enrolled to do an A-level crammer course when a notification popped up on his phone ... Fretwell stayed quiet ... As well as Alex Turner, for whom he has played bass in the Last Shadow Puppets, Fretwell also has devoted fans in CourteenersLiam Fray and Elbow’s Guy Garvey ... .
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Sorry, French People No Longer Think Britain Is Cool

Vice 27 May 2021
“When I was a teenager, I only ever listened to British bands and I actually used to wear Union Jack flag-printed Converse,” says Antoine Leclerc, who grew up in Bordeaux in the 2000s ... §  ... In 2016, just after Britain voted to leave the EU, The Last Shadow Puppets covered the 60s French classic “Les Cactus”.
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