The Last Shadow Puppets is a project of Alex Turner of the band Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane of the band The Rascals, and composer/producer James Ford.

On 20 February 2008, the duo revealed they would be known as The Last Shadow Puppets and that their album would be titled The Age of the Understatement to be released on 21 April 2008. The album went straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart. The first single, "The Age of the Understatement" was released the week before on 14 April, with new song "Two Hearts in Two Weeks" and covers of Billy Fury's "Wondrous Place" and David Bowie's "In the Heat of the Morning" (a song previously mentioned by Turner as a favourite[4]) as b-sides.[5] The duo have said they took inspiration from Scott Walker and early Bowie.

The second single, "Standing Next to Me", was released on 7 July 2008.[6] The album produced a third single, "My Mistakes Were Made for You".

The album was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize[7] but lost out to Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid.

Kane has said in an interview with The Sun that The Last Shadow Puppets will be looking to record new material in 2009.[8]