The solo debut of Miles Kane is a murky flashback to the 1960s Brit-rock music scene. It’s an impressive breakout for an artist tightly associated with Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner, largely for their bromance baby The Last Shadow Puppets. There’s an elegant mystique about Colour of the Trap, enshrouded in booming drums and smoky-rock riffs. It’s massively epic, the kind of album that gets your heart racing for no apparent reason, especially considering that most of the songs are about romantic endeavors. Lyrics aside, it would make an apt soundtrack for a Bond film with stabbing guitars drowning in foreboding orchestrals. Even when it slows down to finger-picked acoustics and breathy vocals, there’s something spell-binding about it. Kane has reassembled a sound lodged in the gloomy crevices of the past and made it uniquely his own. Though the album is hardly without flaw, it is defining. It certainly does enough to sever him from the hip of his buddy Alex Turner and grant him forgiveness from his previous, lesser known associations. Kane is one of those artists that develops in increments; he’s only getting better. Personally, I think it’s only a matter of time before he’s considered one of the coolest dudes on the Brit-rock stage.

Tracklist

1. Come Closer
2. Rearrange
3. My Fantasy
4. Counting Down the Days
5. Better Left Invisible
6. Quicksand
7. Inhaler
8. Kingcrawler
9. Take the Night From ME
10. Telepathy
11. Happenstance
12. Colour of the Trap