Arctic Monkeys' front man Alex Turner's friendship with Miles Kane from The
Rascals led to two weeks in a chateau in Nantes, where the pair raided the back
catalogues of Scott Walker, Jacques Brel and early David Bowie and came up with
a bunch of songs full of crooning, 1960s grandeur. With Simian Mobile Disco
producer James Ford on drums and the 22-piece string and brass section of the
London Metropolitan Orchestra by their side, The Last Shadow Puppets' debut
album Age of the Understatement (2008) came charged with vintage melancholy and
the cinematic melodrama of a John Barry ...