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soulful strut with a wonderful vocal coda that just builds

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Arctic Monkeys Humbug Brick Red Vinyl soulful strut with a wonderfulFacing the third album blues, the Arctic Monkeys turned to Josh Homme, the Queens of the Stone Age mastermind renowned for his collaborations but heretofore untested as a producer. On first glance, it's a peculiar pair the heirs of Paul Weller meet the heavy desert mystic but this isn't a team of equals, it's a big brother helping his little siblings go wayward and get weird. Homme doesn't imprint his own views on the Monkeys but encourages them to