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"According to rumour, Alex Turner&amp;#039;s side-project The Last Shadow Puppets took shape after he decided the cover art should feature him and Rascals frontman Miles Kane donning cream polo necks and puffing cigarettes next to a grand piano. Turner and Kane wanted to make &amp;quot;big and epic&amp;quot; Bacharach-style pop that was a million miles from the scruffy, rag-tag indie of their respective bands. On paper, it looked like an arrogant, self-indulgent folly, but you couldn&amp;#039;t deny the pair&amp;#039;s bravery. From the first swell of orchestral strings to its final cinematic rumble, &amp;#039;The Age of the Understatement&amp;#039; proves that Turner and Kane aren&amp;#039;t mucking about on this one. Crossing spaghetti western melodrama with haunting psychedelia, this couldn&amp;#039;t be further from the skinny-jeans indie of &amp;#039;Mardy Bum&amp;#039;. Meanwhile, Turner&amp;#039;s lyrics (&amp;quot;Subtle in her method of seduction, twenty little tragedies begin&amp;quot;), will have many searching for hints about the state of his relationship with Alexa Chung. It&amp;#039;s hard to tell how seriously we should be taking the Puppets, but, on this evidence, it&amp;#039;s going to be a lot of fun finding out.  &amp;gt; Click here to watch the &amp;#039;Understatement&amp;#039; video "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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