Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not,

DOMINO, 2006

Recorded when the members were still in their teens and released amid tremendous hype, Arctic Monkeys’ electrifying debut album put the band on a pedestal that they’ve never fallen from. Filling a void left by the end of Britpop and connected to the post-punk revival of the early 2000s à la the Strokes, the exuberant Whatever People Say I Am pummeled the listener into submission with its exhilarating guitar rock and Turner’s observational wordplay.