Review: Arctic Monkeys' 'Tranquility Base Hotel' Is a Space-Lounge Odyssey

The Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner is the Damon Albarn of his Brit-pop generation – the restless artist who refuses to sit still in one sound too long. The Monkeys have come a along way since the wordy, stungun punk rock of their 2005 hit "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor." A really long way. Their five-years-in-the-making Tranquility Base Hotel is a lounge-pop concept record set in a casino piano bar on the moon. Turner romances his Steinway, tapping influences like French crooner Serg