Prepare for liftoff and enter “warpspeed chic” as shimmering keyboards and muffled tom toms orbit frontman Alex Turner’s lunar suite in opener “Star Treatment.” Unlike the torn-denim thrills of AM (2013), the L.A.-UK quartet’s sixth full-length glints of Pet Sounds swapping six-string contortions for zero-gravity synths, moonwalk bass, and vintage electronics. The eerie weightlessness of “American Sports,” intergalactic hallucinogen “Golden Trunks,” and skull-cracked “She Looks Like Fun” find Turner convulsing between absurdist poetry and freewheeling narration that unravels into political ennui. The Monkeys’ most anti-rock album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino proves their most adventurous, pop accessibility be damned. (8pm, Honda stage)

****.5

This article appears in October 5 • 2018.

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