<P> The album has been compared to the works of David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and Father John Misty, as well as Pet Sounds (1966) by the Beach Boys . Turner has cited Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson, Cohen's Death of a Ladies' Man (1977), Dion's Born to Be with You (1975) and François de Roubaix's score for Le Samouraï (1967) as key influences . The album's rhythm tracks and bass lines have been compared closely to those on Histoire de Melody Nelson, with the influence of Pet Sounds pervading the record, especially in its vocal harmonies . </P> <P>--Alex Turner </P> <P> Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is a concept album depicting a luxury hotel at Tranquility Base, the location of the 1969 moon landing . Lyrically, the album refers frequently to science fiction, incorporating hyperrealist satire and "interstellar escapism" in order to explore entertainment's role in periods of social change: "the desire to escape into it, and the desire to create it". This is influenced by current politics in the United States, as well as consumerism, fame, religion and technology, with the "forgetful, distractible oddballs" Turner embodies as narrators frequently becoming distracted from its social commentary . These multiple narrators are unreliable, "sometimes barely (able to) string a sentence together" and were inspired by lounge music . Turner uses multiple vocal tones to embody the different characters, with his wide vocal range incorporating both deep and falsetto singing styles . The album's lyrical voice has been described as "absurdist suave", in oppose to the "witty sleaze" of Turner's previous work, and has been compared to Argentinian short - story writer Jorge Luis Borges . The dense and self - aware lyrics have been described as "endlessly quotable", written in a rambling, stream - of - consciousness style . Turner cited various films as influencing the lyrics, including Spirits of the Dead (1968), World on a Wire (1973) and the works of Jean - Pierre Melville . Furthermore, the ideas present within the books Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) by Neil Postman and Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace inspired Turner's philosophical exploration of the modern human condition . </P> <P> Turner commented that he took a different approach to writing lyrics than on previous albums, noting that he "became less concerned on this album (with) compartmentalising every idea to the point where each song became this episode that starts and ends in three minutes", with Leonard Cohen inspiring a different perspective on each lyric's relationship with its context . He further noted that his writing on the album was "blunt", in a way he considered similar to the band's debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006). On the connections between the two albums, Turner commented that "it's set in a completely different place, obviously, but there's something in the lyrics that reminds me of something in that writing . I'm tempted to say that it's something to do with how blunt it is . I think that was something I was trying to get away from, and perhaps I've returned to it now". </P>

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