Arctic Monkeys have never made a perfect album and they are not a particularly great band. They are a good band and have made some good albums, though. In another time of British music (though I find when people make these kind of links, they rarely hold any kind of weight) Arctic Monkeys would perhaps be that band that would have a few hits and a record you'd maybe quite like - this may be now the very case, but Arctic Monkeys success seems to go further and wider than that. A consistent string of number one albums almost tells the story about Arctic Monkeys but denies some of the truth beyond the surface. Generally speaking, Arctic Monkeys are well-liked mainstream rock band and people seem to like to see them do well because their humbly working class origins. The attention waned on 2009's Humbug slightly, I should know, I was there to see it - but Arctic Monkeys, post-Glastonbury and all, are arguably the most popular they have ever been now since their initial 2006-2007 ascendancy.
