Arctic Monkeys, "Cornerstone" (2009)

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Arctic Monkey's new one sounds like it comes from the intersection of getting high and getting jaded, and I would call it a grower, but their other two albums were the same way: you can sense the hooks right off, but the longer you listen, the more you find the song's depths.

"Cornerstone" isn't going to give you a good mood when you weren't expecting one, but the sound of resignation has its places, and the subtle melody and lovely guitar arpeggios are the perfect soundtrack for a self-indulgent bad mood, an itch that feels perfectly scratched by song's end.

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