This has been described as the band’s Bowie era, and you feel that if they could just let a bit of their self-consciousness go, it could be. The “old romantic fool” not only suits the mood but also Turner’s voice as he ages, crooning over wah-wah harmonies and rising to a quite gorgeous falsetto. It’s hard to top the devastating beauty of “There’d Better Be a Mirrorball”, both the lead single and the opening track, with its doomed strings and unsettling staccato piano hits. You can almost see Turner spot lit in a speakeasy lounge, clutching a grilled microphone for dear life while the rest of the band play stony-faced behind him. There is much of old Hollywood on The Car, Bacharach-style strings underpin the record and each song is like a disembodied scene rendered in black and white. This feels like a very serious album, but Turner hasn’t lost his sense of humour entirely: on one of the more upbeat songs, “Hello You”, he gently pokes fun at his wordy, confusing vignettes: “Lego Napoleon movie written in noble gas-filled glass tubes underlined in sparks – I’ll admit it’s elaborate for a waking thought.” Bongos sputter, strings sway, a world turns and it’s all quite beautiful.įlo's Brit Award could end snobbery towards manufactured girl bands 11 February, 2023 Hitmakers behind Lewis Capaldi are 'shocked' at how short TikTok is making chart-topping songs 11 February, 2023 Fred Again's Brit nominations prove young people's desire to return to the dancefloor 10 February, 2023 Alex Turner’s lyrics are at their most prose-like with long sentences winding their way through stanzas with rarely a chorus to speak of. Like 2018’s Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, it’s a vast and largely downtempo sonic landscape but unlike its predecessor, The Car shrinks its focus to a smaller world, snatches of relationships shuffled under the microscope and rhapsodised about. It makes for a warm and satisfying listen. But on their seventh album Arctic Monkeys are swooningly glamorous and musically theatrical. He then collected the cash while celebrating with the couple at El Gran Castillo de Jagua – the same Flatbush Avenue eatery Marcus and Zinzi were heading to August 1 when Bongo accidently fell out of Zinzi’s pocket.įollowing dinner with Baretto, the couple and toy monkey headed back to Manhattan to bar hop before returning home so Bongo could again sleep in the bed it shares with them.It’s hard to believe the band that made The Car are the same group of scrappy young men that flirted with us from the tip of the indie landfill iceberg about dancefloors and mardy bums. Ultimately, he said he caved in after seeing how “heartbroken” Marcus was and being promised he could visit the doll. “I fell in love with Bongo and wanted to keep him,” Barreto said. The couple then presented a cash-strapped Barreto the $500 reward they publicly promised for whoever found Bongo - but only after having to beg him to turn the doll over. “I was devastated and gave up smoking after it,” she said. She confirmed this through the doll’s identifying marks, including a “burn scar” she had accidentally given the stuffed animal five years ago after a lit ash from a cigar she was smoking blew onto it. Marcus, who teaches English as a second language at a Manhattan private school, Rennert Bilingual, said she “felt Bongo’s presence” even while approaching the apartment.īut she said she had to closely examine the monkey to make sure it was Bongo. The 8-inch-tall doll was found Tuesday by Luis Barreto, 61, an unemployed Park Slope man, who discovered it atop a parking meter.īut unaware that it belonged to the couple and had gone missing - and finding it irresistibly cute - Barreto brought it back to his Sterling Place home, where he displayed it on a stereo speaker.īongo was only reunited with his “parents” after they returned to Flatbush Avenue by Sterling Place on Saturday to hang more fliers pleading for its return, and Zinzi approached Barreto and some other men hanging out on the street and told them about Bongo and the reward.īarreto realized he had Bongo and headed with the couple back to his pad for an emotional reunion. “I never gave up hope - I prayed, mediated, and now he’s with us again,” said Bonni Marcus, 47, who along with boyfriend Jack Zinzi, 58, were devastated after losing Bongo on their way to a restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on August 1. It’s a monkey miracle - Bongo has been found!Īn Upper East Side couple grieving over the loss of a stuffed toy monkey they’ve raised like a son the past decade went bananas with joy Saturday night after being reunited with their beloved Beanie Baby. Bonni Marcus and Bongo (Christopher Sadowski)
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