Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino,

DOMINO, 2018

At the time of its release in 2018, the band’s surprising sixth album, the ornate and ambitious Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, was the indie rock equivalent of a concept record based on the theme of a lunar colony. Its baroque, trippy and lounge-pop sound recalled such influences as the Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg and Tin Pan Alley. This record and subsequently The Car also found Turner channeling his inner Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in his vocal performances.