"WE CAN'T take our eyes off the tee-shirts and ties combination - well see you later innovator."

If they've learnt anything from their meteoric rise from being any other band gigging the provinces to darlings of the indie scene, it's this: Wherever you go in life, you can't avoid the fakes and the phoneys, the poseurs and the professional pretenders.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not was a blast of cold, gritty Yorkshire air, straight from the pubs, clubs, streets and ginnels of Sheffield - boozy nights, birds, bouncers and brawls.

With Favourite Worst Nightmare, the lads have stuck to what they know. The circles they move in may have changed, but the witty straight-on-the-money observations and quips are there in abundance.

Opener and first single Brianstorm sets the tone. Rumour has it drummer Matt Helders took up boxing during the recording of Nightmare, and the pummelling, relentless beats which kick off the track attest to this.

The quality doesn't let up, with the excellent Teddy Picker, D Is For Dangerous and Balaclava blasting out in quick succession.

Alex Turner's lyrics are raw, unforgiving, but always laugh-out-loud funny. And his delivery is cracking.

Simian Mobile Disco's production has souped-up the sometimes sparse sound of their debut, and given Turner's voice an echoing sound that fits his shout-it-from-the-rooftops lampooning of all and sundry.

Rabid, angular guitars skirmish behind the frontman's instantly recognisable steel-tinged inflections. You can already hear Fluorescent Adolescent's refrain: "Oh, the boy's a slag, the best you ever had," reverberating around the festival circuit.

Only Ones Who Know is a sea change, with the Monkeys slipping into lounge mode. And it sounds incredible.

Elsewhere, they betray the album's Shoreditch recording base, with the new rave-bashing This House Is A Circus. Taking a pop at late-night pharmacological shenanigans, it comes complete with house-tinged guitar riff and a spot-on take-off of the bassline from 2 Unlimited's No Limits.

What a triumph.