★打破全英排行史上当日当週排行销售冠军纪录、英国当日大卖近12万张、首週销售勇破36万张、空降蝉联英国金榜4週冠军、雄霸独立专辑榜6週冠军专辑
★勇夺本届NME AWARDS‘年度英国最佳乐团’、‘年度最佳新进乐团’与‘年度最佳单曲I Bet You Look On The Dancefloor’三项大奖。 全英音乐奖‘年度最佳新进艺人’
★NME 10分、英国卫报Guardian、纽约时报New York Times、musicOMH.com网站 一致满分 ★★★★★ 五星、英国BBC电台、Dot Music、全美公告牌Billboard ★★★★☆四星半推荐、2006年最闪耀的年度新团。
★北极泼猴 全球官方网站：www.arcticmonkeys.com
Breathless, hyperbolic praise was piled upon the Arctic Monkeys and their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, an instant phenomenon without peer. Within the course of a year, the band rose from the ranks of an Internet phenomenon to the biggest band in the U.K., all on the strength of early demos circulated on the Web as MP3s. Those demos built the band a rabid fan base before the Monkeys had released a record, even before they played more than a handful of gigs. In effect, the group performed a complete run around the industry, avoiding conventional routes toward stardom, which paid off in spades. When Whatever People Say I Am hit the streets in January 2006, it sold a gob-smacking 118,501 copies within its first week of release, which not only made it the fastest-selling debut ever, but it sold more than the rest of the Top 20 combined — a remarkable achievement by any measure.
Last time such excitement surrounded a new British guitar band it was a decade earlier, as Britpop hit overdrive with the release of Oasis' 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe. All four members of the Arctic Monkeys were a little bit shy of their tenth birthday at the time, a bit young to be sure, but old enough to have Oasis be their first favorite band. So, it's little surprise that the Gallaghers' laddism — celebrating nights out fueled by lager and loud guitars — is the bedrock foundation of the Arctic Monkeys, just the way as it has been for most British rock bands since the mid-'90s, but the Monkeys' true musical ground zero is 2001, the year the Strokes stormed British consciousness with their d
