Everything You’ve Come to Expect by The Last Shadow Puppets

Everything You've Come to Expect, the Last Shadow Puppets' second album, came out on Domino on 1 April 2016, eight years after The Age of the Understatement. Alex Turner and Miles Kane wrote it in 2014 between London, Paris and Los Angeles, and James Ford produced it in Malibu, with guest Matt Helders, new bassist Zach Dawes and Owen Pallett back on string arrangements.

It's baroque pop gone to seed in the California sun: orchestral soul and psychedelic pop, with Italian film scores, disco, funk, post-punk and desert rock all bleeding into the mix. The lyrics are all hedonism, romance and self-doubt, two young rock stars telling tall tales about their nights out, and "Bad Habits" snarls and struts like the pair of them are daring you to look away. Critics heard a band that had moved past the pastiche of their debut, and it went to number one in the UK, just like the first one did, and in Belgium too. Even the cover, Tina Turner mid-dance, tinted gold, looks the part.

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