Favourite Worst Nightmare
| Arctic Monkeys
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Favourite Worst Nightmare is the second studio album by English rock band Arctic Monkeys, released on 23 April 2007 by Domino Recording Company. Recorded in east London's Miloco Studios with producers James Ford and Mike Crossey, the album was preceded by the release of "Brianstorm" on 16 April 2007. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Sheffield band follows its record-breaking debut with another assured album that seems to glimpse the possibility of greatness even when it fails to attain it.
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NME
It’s the most anticipated album since The Stone Roses’ ‘Second Coming’. And it’s huge.
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Rolling Stone
Most of Nightmare sounds confident, unlabored and just plain good — English cool without English bullshit.
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BBC
Rather scarily, 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' has surpassed previous heights.
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Drowned in Sound
Though inconsistent, this record is remarkably accomplished and immediate.
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Uncut
Expertly executed and supremely assured.
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Consequence of Sound
Favourite Worst Nightmare is the last album in which Arctic Monkeys embrace the unapologetic impetuousness of youth
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All Music
It's the vibrant, thrilling sound of a band coming into its own.
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Sputnik Music
They may not be the second coming of The Beatles, but they just might be the next Rolling Stones.
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Sputnik Music
(2007) The Monkeys succeeded in creating a more than qualifying sophmore album with which they have cemented their name as one of Britain's most spirited and interesting bands around.
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Scene Point Blank
They haven't reproduced the teen awesomeness of their first record, but it doesn't feel like they wanted to.
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Music OMH
The more you listen to it, the more these glorious songs reveal their delights, and soon you won’t be able to live without it.
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Standard
A more sonically expansive and multi-faceted album.
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34st
The Monkeys’ sophomore album is fiercely in tune with the post–punk, garage rock sensibilities that first shot them to fame.
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No Ripcord
There's a lot of bluster and enthusiasm here but I'm struggling to identify much in the way of true substance.
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Audioxide
I don’t think Arctic Monkeys have made their masterpiece. I don’t think they ever will, either, and I think Favourite Worst Nightmare is the closest they’ll actually get.
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Audioxide
Favourite Worst Nightmare is an essential taste of noughties rock and well worth a listen.
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Audioxide
Favourite Worst Nightmare may just be the best album to come from Arctic Monkeys yet.
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Pure Grain Audio
The kind of album you repeatedly consume that’s impossible to sit still to.
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Radio X
Their sophomore album may not be their very best, but it’s still produced some of the band’s best-loved tracks.
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Indie London
If they keep this up, the Monkeys could be around for years to come.
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Prefix Mag
These kids are only about twenty-one years old, and although Favourite Worst Nightmare doesn’t prove Arctic Monkeys to be the best rock band in the world, it does seem now like it could only be a matter of time before something does.
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The Line of Best Fit
Still young and unashamingly gifted.
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Fat Pigeon Live
Favourite Worst Nightmare may display a few faults when compared to Whatever They Say but it is still one hell of an album.
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The Music Box
The band’s lyrics have progressed since its debut, and so have its arrangements.
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QRO Mag
They develop their music even further on Favourite Worst Nightmare while still using what got them this far.
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vibeRANT
Arctic Monkeys’ sophomore release signified not only everything we already knew was great about the band, but also what would go on to make them great in the future.
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Journal Star
"Favourite Worst Nightmare" isn't a classic second album that falls far short of the standard set by its predecessor.
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Blinded by Sound
Favourite Worst Nightmare does what any second album should do: retains what was great about the debut and improves upon it.
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Alt Scribe
Favourite Worst Nightmare‘ shows the start of Arctic Monkeys looking to more far reaching ideas and bringing them into their music.
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Hand Me the Aux
Classic.
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Record Collector Mag
Arctic Monkeys would have done well just to weather the fevered fauxorganic hype that surrounded their debut album. That they’ve come out fighting suggests that not all of it was undeserved.
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RTE
There's as much to enjoy on the 800th listen as there is on the first.
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