Last Shadow Puppets Cover Bowie on First Single
As if the prospect of two up-and-comers from a pair of promising upstarts forging their own propitious path wasn't enough to wrap your head around, get a load of this: For the next three Mondays starting today, Domino Records will issue (in the UK) a Last Shadow Puppets release titled The Age of the Understatement.
One, of course, is the debut album from the brand new thing the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and the Rascals' Miles Kane have gotten themselves into. That hits UK shelves April 21. On April 7 and April 14, the record's title track will be given a handful of singles in a mess of formats, flooding the marketplace with "Understatement". Let's cut through the jumble, shall we?
First up is the digital release of "The Age of the Understatement" today, April 7. A week later, you'll be treated to the single on a pair of 7"s and a CD. The B-sides include the band's own "Two Hearts in Two Weeks" and covers of the David Bowie rarity "In the Heat of the Morning" and early British rocker Billy Fury's "Wondrous Place". The artwork for the singles is pictured above.
Oh, and the LP drops in the U.S. May 6, with the 7" and digital versions of the single hitting the States April 15 April 8.
Here's the album cover:

Though neither the Puppets nor the Monkeys have any live dates approaching, those Rascals sure as heck do. Those dates, too, are down there under this thing.
7" one:
A: The Age of the Understatement
B: Two Hearts in Two Weeks
7" two:
A: The Age of the Understatement
B: In the Heat of the Morning
CD:
01: The Age of the Understatement
02: Two Hearts in Two Weeks
03: Wondrous Place
The Rascals dates:
04-24 Bristol, England - Bristol Bierkeller *
04-25 Southampton, England - Southampton University *
04-28 Cambridge, England - Junction
04-29 London, England - Islington Academy
04-30 Liverpool, England - Academy
05-14 Liverpool, England - Carling Academy
05-17 Brighton, England - The Great Escape
07-05 Kent, England - Z008 Festival
08-08 London, England - Victoria Park (Underage Festival)
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