Glasto Tracks VIII/ Summer Tracks IX

Even though the 'Glasto Tracks' are an extension of my 'Summer Tracks', I want this to be officially on both lists. The opener to the Arctic Monkey's headlining set might not be the summeriest track, all grit and snarl and abstract video, but the reappearance of Alex Turner and the boys in my headphones this summer is making me pretty happy, even if I do have to wait until September for an actual album. Even though a friend and I agreed that, in all honesty, the Monkeys would never achieve the gritty, everyman brilliance of 'Whatever People Say I Am', 'Do I Wanna Know?' and 'R U Mine?' prove that the band are still going strong. Unlike other bands that lose their everyman status and somehow then their appeal, Arctic Monkeys were never so reliant on common experiences that their fame has changed the way they write too substantially.