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AM is the fifth studio album by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. It was produced by James Ford and co-produced by Ross Orton at Sage & Sound Recording in Los Angeles and Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, California, and released in September 2013 through Domino. The album was promoted by the singles 'R U Mine?', 'Do I Wanna Know?', 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?', 'One for the Road', 'Arabella', and 'Snap Out of It'. It features guest appearances by Josh Homme, Bill Ryder-Jones, and Pete Thomas.

The album received critical acclaim from music critics and featured in many year-end lists as one of the best of 2013. It was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize for best album, hailed the Best Album of 2013 by NME magazine, and featured at number 449 on NME's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Commercially, AM has become one of Arctic Monkeys' most successful albums to date, topping charts in several countries, and reaching top ten positions in many more. In the United Kingdom, Arctic Monkeys broke a record with AM, becoming the first independent-label band to debut at number one in the UK with their first five albums. The album is also considered the band's breakthrough in America. The single 'Do I Wanna Know?' was the first song by the band to enter the Billboard Hot 100.

AM is also one of the UK's best-selling vinyl albums of the decade, selling 73,000 units.^[3]

• 1Production
• 3Promotion
• 4Reception
• 8Charts

Production[edit]

Title[edit]

In an interview with Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner said that the album title was inspired by the Velvet Underground's 1985 compilation album VU: 'I actually stole it from the Velvet Underground, I'll just confess that now and get it out of the way. The 'VU' record, obviously.' He went on to say: 'Did we cop out? Yeah! Summat about it feels like this record is exactly where we should be right now. So it felt right to just initial it.'^[4]

Turner later revealed that the band had nearly titled the album The New Black, after a guitar amp they used in the recording process: 'I got this old Rickenbacker thing that we recorded a lot through. There's no knobs, just two holes. And this little black amp that became known as The New Black. Crossed me mind to call the album that.'^[5]

Josh Homme contribution[edit]

Speaking about Josh Homme's contribution to AM with Zane Lowe, Turner said: 'The Josh thing was very much a case of one of us returning a back scratch to the other', referring to his appearance as a guest vocalist on the Queens of the Stone Age album ...Like Clockwork earlier in 2013. Turner continued: 'He came down and sort of got us out of a little rut. It's just fun, it's friends, extended family now – [they] came round, had a fun night. His contribution to our record is really exciting, it's probably my favourite. The 30 seconds that he's in there is just, I dunno, it's like something that I've never heard before. Not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but you know what I'm saying.'^[4] In an interview with 24sata, Turner mentioned that Homme would appear in the song 'Knee Socks'.^[6]

On 4 July 2013, Homme mentioned AM at the Rock for People festival in the Czech Republic: 'I sang on the new Arctic Monkeys record. It's a really cool, sexy after-midnight record. It's called AM, so I guess that's really obvious. And it's really good. It's really good. It's not disco [as such], but it's like a modern, dancefloor sexy record. It's really good.'^[7]

Musical style[edit]

The album draws inspiration from various musical genres, including psychedelic rock, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, desert rock, R&B, soul, and hip hop.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]} Alex Turner described the album as sounding 'like a Dr. Dre beat, but we've given it an Ike Turner bowl-cut and sent it galloping across the desert on a Stratocaster', adding that it 'sound less like four lads playing in a room this time. Essentially, that's what it is, but if you can find a way to manipulate the instruments or the sounds to the point where it sounds a bit like a hip-hop beat that'd be boss in your car, then I think there's something quite cool about that.'^[14] Turner also cited Outkast, Aaliyah, and Black Sabbath as influences.^[15][16] Guitarist Jamie Cook also cited The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars as an inspiration for the album, saying that it was one of the only albums they listened to while recording AM.^[17]

Arctic Monkeys took a different approach to recording AM in comparison to their previous album, Suck It and See, with Alex Turner stating that it is much more a 'studio album'. The band incorporated new instruments to record the album; they used keyboards such as piano, organ, and celeste, a Hohner Guitaret,^[18] and a vintage drum machine. Recording was done differently as well; producer James Ford stated that, instead of the 'live' recording technique of the previous album, this album was recorded mainly with bass guitar and drums laid down first with emphasis on groove. Helder's drum kit was often set up in unconventional ways to achieve different sounds.^[18] Guest musicians Josh Homme, Bill Ryder-Jones, and Pete Thomas were featured on the album.^[4]

Promotion[edit]

AM Tour[edit]

The AM Tour—with over 150 concert dates in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand—was held to promote the album. It started on 22 May 2013 in Ventura, California. The next year, the band shared a short documentary film via their YouTube channel to mark the end of the tour in its South American leg, featuring a performance of 'R U Mine?' at its final date on 15 November 2014, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[19]

Artwork[edit]

On 15 July 2013, the album cover artwork was revealed.^[20] On 2 September 2013, Arctic Monkeys revealed a track titled 'I Want It All' during a XFM radio show,^[21] and exclusively played 'One for the Road' on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show.^[22]

The waveform depicted is characteristic of an amplitude modulated (AM) signal.^[23]

Other live performances[edit]

Arctic Monkeys were scheduled to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on 9 October 2013, but had to cancel as Kimmel's guest, rapper Kanye West, talked for too long.^[24][25] The band performed 'Do I Wanna Know?' and 'R U Mine?' on the show's outdoor stage a week later, on 16 October 2013.^[26]

Singles[edit]

The first single from the album, 'R U Mine?', was released digitally on 27 February 2012.^[27] On 21 April 2012, it was released physically for the Record Store Day as a limited edition double A-side purple 7' vinyl.^[28] 'R U Mine?' was released as a single on 2 March 2012.^[27]

'Do I Wanna Know?', the second single from the album, was released on 19 June 2013. The song received significant airplay, including joining BBC Radio 1's 'B List', and later moving to the 'A List'. It was certified Silver in the UK, indicating an excess of 200,000 sales (becoming the fourth Arctic Monkeys single to do so), and has also been successful internationally.^[29]

The third single from AM, 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?', was released on 11 August 2013 as a single, together with an accompanying music video.^[30][31] The song was leaked online on 29 July 2013, but quickly taken down.^[32] The song debuted at number eight in the UK Singles Chart,^[33] becoming Arctic Monkeys' first top 10 single since 'Fluorescent Adolescent' (2007).^[34]

The fourth single to promote the album, 'One for the Road', was released as a digital download and 7' vinyl on 9 December 2013.^[35]

On 28 January 2014, 'Arabella' was released to radio in Italy;^[36] the same month, the band confirmed that it would be released as the fifth single on 10 March 2014 in the United Kingdom.^[37] It impacted contemporary hit radio on the scheduled date,^[38] though a planned 7' vinyl release was cancelled.^[39]

'Snap Out of It' impacted contemporary hit radio in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2014 as the album's sixth single.^[40][41]

Reception[edit]

Critical reception[edit]

AM has received critical acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 36 reviews.^[42] Simon Harper of Clash magazine states: 'Welding inspiration from hip-hop greats with rock's titans, AM is built upon portentous beats that are dark and intimidating, yet wickedly thrilling.'^[11] Ray Rahman of Entertainment Weekly gave it an 'A-', and opined that 'AM mixes Velvet Underground melodies, Black Sabbath riffs, and playful grooves, and has fun doing it.'^[45]Time Out said of the album: 'One of Britain's greatest bands just got greater in an unexpected but hugely welcome way. Single men, I urge you: put down FHM and pick up AM.'^[52] In their 10/10 review, NME wrote that AM is 'absolutely and unarguably the greatest record of their career.'^[48] In his 8/10 review, J.C. Maçek III of PopMatters praised Turner for being 'at his most poetic to date', and called the album 'a wonderfully cohesive and diverse album that fits together incredibly well.'^[13] Tim Jonze of The Guardian noted that the album 'manages to connect those different directions – the muscular riffs of Humbug and the wistful pop of Suck It and See – with the bristling energy and sense of fun that propelled their initial recordings.'^[46]Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal called AM 'paranoid and haunted.'^[49] In his review of the album, Matt Mason of Q gave it 4 out of 5 stars and wrote:

Not afraid to explore but never radical for the sake of it, the Arctic Monkeys have delivered another triumph. Some of their iridescent energy has been tempered by age, but it's been replaced by the craft and confidence that made their [2013's] Glastonbury set so compelling. Not for the first time, they sound like the best band in Britain.^[50]

Accolades[edit]

At the 2013 NME Awards, Arctic Monkeys were nominated for Best British Band. 'R U Mine?' was also nominated for Best Track, and won the award for Best Music Video.^[53]AM was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize for best album,^[54] becoming Arctic Monkeys third album to receive the nomination, after their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, and its follow-up, Favourite Worst Nightmare. The album's second single, 'Do I Wanna Know?', won the Best Track award at the 2013 Q Awards.^[55] 'Do I Wanna Know' was also nominated as the 'Best Rock Performance' at the 2015 Grammy Awards.^[56] At the 2014 BRIT Awards, Arctic Monkeys won in the British Album of the Year and British Group categories, becoming the first band to ever 'do the double' (that is, win in both categories) three times (Coldplay and Manic Street Preachers did it twice).^[57]

NME ranked AM number 449 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, after it only being out for a month.^[58] The magazine has also announced its list of 50 Best Albums of 2013, with AM taking the top spot: 'AM felt like a genuine evolution for the Monkeys, and one that wasn't without risk. Its success, however, rested on the two things that had always made them special: Alex Turner's wry way with words, and his way with a tune.' NME classified AM's songs as 'the tales of wasted phone calls, drunken lunges and late-night confessions.'^[59]

AM boasted an embarrassment of riches on both counts. 'AM is the album against which everything else will now be measured.'^[60] 17 music journalists of the Polish media company Agora SA (Gazeta Wyborcza, Gazeta.pl, TOK FM) placed AM at number two in their ranking of 10 Best Foreign Albums of 2013, behind Arcade Fire's Reflektor.^[61]

AM was ranked #1 on NME magazine's list of the 50 Best Albums of 2013 on 26 November 2013.^[60] The album has also been recognised as one of the bestselling vinyl albums of the decade, selling 27,000 units as of July 2015.^[62]

Commercial performance[edit]

On 15 September 2013, the album charted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, having sold 157,329 copies, thus becoming the second fastest-selling album of the year, behind Daft Punk's Random Access Memories.^[73] With the debut of AM on the chart, Arctic Monkeys also broke a record, becoming the first independent-label band to debut at number one in the UK with their first five albums.^[74] Following the band's win at the 2014 BRIT Awards, the album charted at number two on the chart, behind Bad Blood by Bastille, who also experienced the 'BRITs effect'.^[75] As of June 2019, AM has spent 300 weeks in the top 100 of the UK Albums Chart.^[76]

AM peaked at number one in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Portugal, and reached top ten positions in several other countries. In the United States, the album sold 42,000 copies in its first week, and debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the band's highest charting album in the United States.^[77] In August 2017, AM was certified platinum by the RIAA for combined sales and album-equivalent units over of a million units in the United States.^[78]

Track listing[edit]

All lyrics written by Alex Turner, except where noted; all music composed by Arctic Monkeys.

Personnel[edit]

Adapted from the AM liner notes.^[81]

Charts[edit]

Certifications[edit]

Release history[edit]

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Arctic Monkeys is an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 2002. The group consists of Alex Turner (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Matt Helders (drums, vocals), Jamie Cook (guitar, keyboards) and Nick O'Malley (bass guitar, backing vocals). Former band member Andy Nicholson (bass guitar, backing vocals) left the band in 2006 shortly after their debut album was released.

They have released six studio albums: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), Humbug (2009), Suck It and See (2011), AM (2013) and Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018), as well as one live album, At the Apollo (2008). Their debut album is the fastest-selling debut album by a band in UK chart history, and in 2013, Rolling Stone ranked it the 30th-greatest debut album.^[1][2]

The band has won seven Brit Awards – winning both Best British Group and Best British Album three times, and have been nominated for five Grammy Awards.^[3][4] They also won the Mercury Prize in 2006 for their debut album, in addition to receiving nominations in 2007, 2013 and 2018.^[5] The band have headlined at the Glastonbury Festival twice, in 2007 and again in 2013.

Arctic Monkeys were heralded as one of the first bands to come to public attention via the Internet, with commentators suggesting they represented the possibility of a change in the way in which new bands are promoted and marketed.^[6]

• 1History

History[edit]

2002–2005: Early years and record deal[edit]

The band began rehearsing at Yellow Arch Studios in Neepsend,^[7] and played its first gig on 13 June 2003 at The Grapes in Sheffield city centre.^[8] After a few performances in 2003, the band began to record demos at 2fly studios^[9] in Sheffield. 18 songs were demoed in all and the collection, now known as Beneath the Boardwalk, was burned onto CDs to give away at gigs, which were promptly file-shared amongst fans. The name Beneath the Boardwalk originated when the first batch of demos were sent around. The first sender, wanting to classify the demos, named them after where he received them, the Boardwalk. Slowly, as more demos were spread, they were all classified under this name. This has led to many people falsely believing that Beneath the Boardwalk was an early album, or that the early demos were all released under this title. The group did not mind the distribution, saying 'we never made those demos to make money or anything. We were giving them away free anyway – that was a better way for people to hear them.'^[10]

When asked about the popularity of the band's MySpace site in an interview with Prefix Magazine, the band said that they were unaware of what it was, and that the site had originally been created by their fans.^[10]

The band began to grow in popularity across the north of England,^[11] receiving attention from BBC Radio and the British tabloid press. A local amateur photographer, Mark Bull, filmed the band's performances and made the music video 'Fake Tales of San Francisco', releasing it on his website,^[10] alongside the contents of Beneath the Boardwalk – a collection of the band's songs which he named after a local music venue. In May 2005, Arctic Monkeys released the EPFive Minutes with Arctic Monkeys on their own 'Bang Bang' label, featuring the songs 'Fake Tales of San Francisco' and 'From the Ritz to the Rubble'. This release was limited to 500 CDs and 1,000 7' records, but was also available to download from the iTunes Music Store. Soon after, the band played at the Carling Stage of the Reading and Leeds Festivals, reserved for less known or unsigned bands. Their appearance was hyped by much of the music press and the band was watched by an unusually large crowd.

Eventually, they were signed to Domino in June 2005. The band said they were attracted to the DIY ethic of Domino owner Laurence Bell, who ran the label from his flat and only signed bands that he liked personally.^[12] The UK's Daily Star reported that this was followed in October by a £1 million publishing deal with EMI and a £725,000 contract with Epic Records for the United States.^[13] Arctic Monkeys denied this on their website, dubbing the newspaper 'The Daily Stir'. However, Domino had licensed the Australian and New Zealand publishing rights to EMI and the Japanese rights to independent label Hostess.^[11] Their debut single 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor', which was recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, was released on 17 October 2005 and went straight to No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, beating Sugababes and Robbie Williams. Two weeks previous to this, it made its first appearance on the cover of NME. Their second single, 'When the Sun Goes Down' (previously titled 'Scummy Man'), released on 16 January 2006, also went straight to No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, selling 38,922 copies and taking over that position from Shayne Ward. The band's success with little marketing or advertising led some to suggest that it could signal a change in how new bands achieve recognition.^[6]

2006: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not[edit]

The band finished recording their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire in September 2005 with British record producer Jim Abbiss producing.^[14]Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not became the fastest selling debut album in UK chart history, selling 363,735 copies in the first week.^[15] This smashed the previous record of 306,631 copies held by Popstars by Hear'Say, and sold more copies on its first day alone – 118,501 – than the rest of the Top 20 albums combined.^[16] The cover sleeve of Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, showing Chris McClure, a friend of the band smoking a cigarette, was criticised by the head of the NHS in Scotland for 'reinforcing the idea that smoking is OK'.^[17] The image on the CD itself is a shot of an ashtray full of cigarettes. The band's product manager denied the accusation, and suggested the opposite – 'You can see from the image smoking is not doing him the world of good.'^[17]

The record was released a month later in the US on 21 February 2006^[18] and entered at No. 24 on the Billboard album chart after it sold 34,000 units in its first week, making it the second fastest selling for a debut indie rock album in America.^[19] However, US sales for the first year did not match those of the first week in the UK for the album. US critics were more reserved about the band than their UK counterparts, and appeared unwilling to be drawn into the possibility of 'yet another example of the UK's press over-hyping new bands'.^[20] However, the band's June 2006 tour of North America received critical acclaim at each stop^[21][22][23] – the hype surrounding them 'proven to exist for good reason'.^[24] Meanwhile, the UK's NME magazine declared the band's debut album the '5th greatest British album of all time'.^[25] It also equalled the record of the Strokes and Oasis at the 2006 NME Awards, winning three fan-voted awards for Best British Band, Best New Band and Best Track for 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor'.

Arctic Monkeys wasted no time in recording new material, and released Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?, a five-track EP on 24 April 2006. Due to its length, the EP was ineligible to chart as a UK single or album. Furthermore, the record's graphic language has resulted in significantly less radio airplay than previous records, although this was not a reported concern according to an insider – 'since they made their name on the Internet... they don't care if they don't get radio play'.^[26] The release of the EP Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? just three months after their record-breaking debut album has been criticised by some, who have seen it as 'money-grabbing' and 'cashing in on their success'.^[27] The band countered that it regularly releases new music not to make money, but to avoid the 'boredom' of 'spending three years touring on one album'.^[28]

Soon after the release of the EP in the UK, the band announced that Andy Nicholson would not take part in the band's forthcoming North America tour due to fatigue from 'an intensive period of touring'.^[29] On returning to the UK, Nicholson confirmed that he would leave Arctic Monkeys and start his own project. He also said that he couldn't deal with the band's fame and the success over the previous six months. In a statement on their official website, the band said: 'We are sad to tell everyone that Andy is no longer with the band', also confirmed that Nick O'Malley – former bassist with the Dodgems who had drafted in as temporary bassist for the tour – would continue as bassist for the rest of their summer tour schedule.^[30] Shortly after, Nick O'Malley was confirmed as the formal replacement for Nicholson.

Arctic Monkeys' first release without Nicholson, the single 'Leave Before the Lights Come On', came on 14 August 2006. Turner said that the song was one of the last songs he wrote before their rise to fame, and suggested that 'it feels very much like it could be on the album'.^[31] Peaking at No. 4 in the UK, the single became the band's first single not to reach No. 1. The band was re-united at the Leeds Festival when Nicholson met up with his former bandmates and his replacement bassist, O'Malley.^[32] Only the original band members, minus Nicholson, were present at the award ceremony when Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not won the 2006 Mercury Prize two weeks later.^[33]

2007: Favourite Worst Nightmare[edit]

The band's second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, was released on 23 April 2007, a week after the release of accompanying single 'Brianstorm'. Like its predecessor, Favourite Worst Nightmare also quickly reached No. 1 in the album charts. Turner described the songs as 'very different from last time', adding that the sound of some tracks are 'a bit full-on – a bit like 'From the Ritz to the Rubble', 'The View from the Afternoon', that sort of thing'.^[34] A secret gig played at Sheffield's Leadmill on 10 February 2007, debuted seven new songs (six from Favourite Worst Nightmare and one other).^[35] Early reviews of the release were positive, and described it as 'very, very fast and very, very loud'.^[36]

Meanwhile, the band continued to pick up awards from around the world, namely the Best New Artist in the United States at the PLUG Independent Music Awards, the Album of the Year awards in Japan, Ireland and the US, awards for Best Album and Best Music DVD for the short film Scummy Man at the 2007 NME Awards.^[37] It ended the year by clinching the Best British Band and Best British Album at the 2008 BRIT Awards. For the second year in a row, the band was nominated for the annual Mercury Prize, although it failed to match its feat of 2006 after the award went to Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future.

On 29 April 2007, the day Favourite Worst Nightmare charted at No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart, all 12 tracks from the album charted in the Top 200 of the UK Singles Chart. On 27 April 2007 it had a total of 18 tracks in the Top 200. 'Fluorescent Adolescent' and '505' charted in the Top 75, at No. 60 and No. 74 respectively. The band later released 'Fluorescent Adolescent' as a single, and it charted at No. 5, after debuting the song live on The Jonathan Ross Show.

The third single from Favourite Worst Nightmare, 'Teddy Picker', was released on 3 December 2007. It charted at No. 20 and remained only one week in the top 40 staying in this position, making it the lowest charting single for the band so far. Prior to this release the band released an extremely limited number of 250 vinyl under the pseudonym Death Ramps containing two of the B-sides from the 'Teddy Picker' single.

In its first week of release the album sold 227,993 copies,^[38] emulating Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not in going straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart, albeit selling 130,000 copies fewer than their record-breaking debut. The first two singles from the album Brianstorm and Fluorescent Adolescent were both UK Top Hits.

Favourite Worst Nightmare's first day sales of 85,000 outsold the rest of the Top 20 combined, while all twelve tracks from the album entered the top 200 of the UK Singles Chart in their own right.^[39] By September 2013 the album has sold 821,128 copies in UK.^{[citation needed]}

In the USA, the album debuted at number seven, selling around 44,000 copies in its first week.^[40] The album has since gone double platinum^[41] in the UK and the album was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize. At the 2008 BRIT Awards it won Best British Album.

Arctic Monkeys headlined the Glastonbury Festival on 22 June 2007, the highlights of which were aired on BBC2. During their headline act, the band performed with Dizzee Rascal and Simian Mobile Disco and covered Shirley Bassey's 'Diamonds Are Forever'.^[42] The band also played a large gig at Dublin's Malahide Castle on 16 June 2007, with a second date added the following day.^[43] The band was also slated to play the Austin City Limits Music Festival in September 2007. Other European festivals include Rock Werchter in 2007.The band played two shows at Cardiff International Arena on 19 and 20 June 2007 supported by local friends of the band Reverend and the Makers. It also played two London gigs at Alexandra Palace on 8 and 9 December 2007. On 1 September 2007 the band insisted on taking a working holiday to Ibiza where it played what turned out to be the last ever full live Ibiza Rocks show in Bar M (now Ibiza Rocks Bar). The band performed in front of 700 people in the bar by the beach whilst many thousands lined the beach outside unable to get a ticket – The Sun described this concert as the 'rock event of the summer' stating that 'most people left saying they had just witnessed the best gig of their lives'.^[44] The band played their last show of the tour on 17 December 2007 at Manchester Apollo, which was filmed for the live album and video release At the Apollo, which was released in cinemas the following year.

2008–2010: Humbug[edit]

After a brief hiatus during which Alex Turner toured and recorded with his side project the Last Shadow Puppets, the band recorded a total of 24 songs; 12 in the Rancho De La Luna recording sessions with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age in early autumn, 2008, and 12 in the New York sessions with James Ford in spring, 2009, following their January tour of New Zealand and Australia. During this tour, lead single 'Crying Lightning', along with Humbug songs 'Pretty Visitors', 'Dangerous Animals', and 'Potion Approaching' (then known as 'Go-Kart'), was debuted live. It was later revealed by Matt Helders in a video diary that the album would consist of 14 tracks and that Alex Turner would stay in New York to oversee the mixing of the material.^[45] However, the final track listing, revealed on 1 June 2009, listed only 10.^[46]

In a preview article on Clash, writer Simon Harper claimed that the band had 'completely defied any expectations or presumptions to explore the depths they can reach when stepping foot outside their accepted styles,' and that 'Turner is his usual eloquent self, but has definitely graduated into an incomparable writer whose themes twist and turn through stories and allegories so potent and profound it actually leaves one breathless'.^[47] On the same site, Alex Turner revealed that the band had listened to Nick Cave, Jimi Hendrix and Cream while writing the new album, the title of which would be Humbug.^[48]Humbug was released on 19 August 2009, and, like both of its predecessors, the album went straight to No. 1.

As announced on Arctic Monkeys' website, the first single from Humbug was 'Crying Lightning', released on 6 July, digitally through iTunes. It also received its first radio premiere on the same day. On 12 July 2009, the single 'Crying Lightning' debuted at number 12 in the UK Singles Chart and number 1 on the UK Indie Chart. The second single, 'Cornerstone', was released on 16 November 2009 to much critical acclaim, but failed to replicate the same success that every prior Arctic Monkeys single had, reaching a peak at position 94 on the UK singles chart.^[49] It was announced in February 2010 that the third and final single to be taken from Humbug would be 'My Propeller', released on 22 March, shortly before a one off UK show at the Royal Albert Hall in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust on 27 March.

Arctic Monkeys embarked on the first leg of the worldwide Humbug Tour in January 2009 and went on to headline 2009's Reading and Leeds Festivals. During this performance, it played a number of songs from Humbug, plus older tracks such as 'When The Sun Goes Down' and 'The View from the Afternoon', and a cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 'Red Right Hand'. It was also the headline act on the first night of 2009's Exit festival in Serbia. In North America, where it has less of a following, it played abridged sets at Montreal's Osheaga Festival, as well as New Jersey's All Points West Music and Arts Festival. The tour finished on 22 April 2010 in Mexico.

2011–2012: Suck It and See[edit]

NME reported in May 2011 that the band were teaming up with producer James Ford once again, and would be releasing their fourth studio album in late spring at the earliest.^[50]Q magazine reported that the fourth Arctic Monkeys album would be of a 'more accessible vintage' than Humbug.^[51]Q printed edition 299 states 'It's the sound of a band drawing back the curtains and letting the sunshine in'.^[52]

The album was recorded in Sound City Studios in Los Angeles in 2010 and 2011. On 4 March 2011, the band premièred on its website a new track called 'Brick by Brick' with lead vocals by Matt Helders. Helders explained that this is not a single, just a tease of what is coming and that is definitely going to be in the fourth album.^[53] On 10 March 2011 the band revealed the album is to be called Suck It and See and was released on 6 June 2011.

Their fourth album's first single, titled 'Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair' was released as a digital download on 11 April and on vinyl with 'Brick by Brick' on 16 April for Record Store Day. On 17 April, it went to No. 28 in the UK Singles Chart. A version of the single with 2 B-sides was released on 7 and 10 inch vinyl on 30 May. The band allowed fans to listen to the entire album on their website before deciding about whether to purchase it or not. Suck It and See was then released on 6 June 2011, and went straight to No. 1 in the album charts. In doing so, Arctic Monkeys became only the second band in history to debut four albums in a row at the top of the charts.^[54]

The band announced 'The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala' as the second single to be taken from Suck It and See. Most of the stock was burned because of the London riots. A limited edition 7' Vinyl of the single was then released over the band's website on 14 August. The song only managed to chart in the top 200 in the UK, however reaching higher in Belgium at No. 25. In September 2011 the band released a music video for the song 'Suck It and See' featuring drummer Matt Helders, and announced they would be releasing it as a single on 31 October 2011. In July 2011, the band released a live EP over iTunes with 6 live recordings from the iTunes Festival in London.

The album has also been successful commercially. In its first week of release, the album debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, selling over 82,000 units^[55] and knocking Lady Gaga's Born This Way off the top spot. In its second week, the album sold a further 34,910 units in the UK. Overall, the album sold 154,000 units in its first week worldwide. NME named the album cover, an artwork free cream monochrome after the styling of The Beatles' White Album, as one of the worst in history.^[56] In July, the album won Mojo award for the Best Album of 2011. Mojo placed the album at number 39 on its list of 'Top 50 albums of 2011.'^[57] On 30 May, a week before official release, Domino Records streamed the entire album on SoundCloud.^[58] Within a few hours of being made public, the first two tracks had reached over 10,000 listens each, and by the end of the week, each had accrued over 100,000 plays.

Arctic Monkeys embarked in May 2011 on their Suck It and See Tour. They headlined the Benicassim Festival 2011 alongside the Strokes, Arcade Fire and Primal Scream. They also headlined Oxegen 2011,^[59]Super Bock Super Rock 2011, V Festival 2011,^[60]Rock Werchter^[61] and T in The Park. They confirmed on 7 February that they were playing two 'massive homecoming shows'^[62] at the Don Valley Bowl in Sheffield on 10 and 11 June, support included Miles Kane, Anna Calvi, the Vaccines and Dead Sons and Mabel Love, clips from the show were also used in the music video for 'The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala'.

They played at Lollapalooza 5–7 August 2011. On 21 August, they also played at Lowlands, the Netherlands. The tour continued until March 2012.^[63]

On 27 October they released a music video for 'Evil Twin' on YouTube, the B-side to their new single 'Suck It and See'. They performed the song on The Graham Norton Show on 28 October. The 4th single from Suck It and See, 'Black Treacle' was released on 23 January 2012. The video for the single was released on YouTube on 5 January 2012. This video continued the theme from the previous single, 'Suck It and See' and 'Evil Twin'.

2013–2016: AM and hiatus[edit]

On 26 February 2012, the band released a new song titled 'R U Mine?' on their YouTube channel.^[64] On 4 March, it went to No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart on downloads alone. On 21 April, the song was released as a single, with the track 'Electricity' as a B-side, released additionally for Record Store Day. The song marked a direct shift in musical direction in comparison to their previous album, Suck It and See, by incorporating a heavy use of falsetto and hip hop beats, and eventually became the inspiration for AM.

On 27 July 2012, Arctic Monkeys played in the London Summer Olympicsopening ceremony, performing 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor' and a cover of the Beatles song 'Come Together'. After the opening ceremony, their version of 'Come Together' entered the UK Singles Chart. It later peaked at number 21, becoming their highest charting single since 2009's 'Crying Lightning'.^[65]

Arctic Monkeys Do I Wanna Know Lyrics

On 22 May 2013 the band started the AM Tour at the Ventura Theatre in Ventura, California, where they debuted a new song titled 'Do I Wanna Know?'. On 1 June 2013, the band performed at Free Press Summer Fest in Houston, TX, where they also played 'Do I Wanna Know?'. On 14 June, the band debuted another song titled 'Mad Sounds' at Hultsfred Festival in Sweden. Four days later, on 18 June 2013, the band released the official video to 'Do I Wanna Know?' via their Facebook page. The studio version of the song, along with accompanying visuals, was also made available to purchase via iTunes, and entered the UK Singles Chart at number 11. On 23 June 2013 Arctic Monkeys headlined Southside Festival in Germany.

On 24 June 2013, the band announced that their new album, entitled AM, would be released on 9 September 2013. The album was recorded in Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree, California, and features guest appearances from Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Elvis Costello's drummer Pete Thomas and Bill Ryder-Jones of the Coral.^[66] Further, on 27 June, the band announced an eight date UK arena tour culminating with a homecoming gig at the Motorpoint Arena Sheffield.^[67] The band played at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival on 28 June as headliners at the Pyramid stage to resounding success, playing 'Mad Sounds' and 'Do I Wanna Know?' from the forthcoming album AM. Arctic Monkeys also headlined the 2013 Open'er Festival in Gdynia, Poland and played on the main stage on 4 July.^[68] On 20 July, the band performed at Benicassim 2013.^[69]

On 11 August 2013, the third single from the album, 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?', was released, with the B-side 'Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You'. It debuted at no. 8 on the UK Singles Chart on 18 August 2013, making it the band's first UK Top 10 single since 2007's 'Fluorescent Adolescent'. The band streamed the album in its entirety four days ahead of its release.^[70].

AM has received critical acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 36 reviews.^[71] Simon Harper of Clash magazine states: 'Welding inspiration from hip-hop greats with rock's titans, AM is built upon portentous beats that are dark and intimidating, yet wickedly thrilling.'^[72] Ray Rahman of Entertainment Weekly gave it an 'A-', and opined that 'AM mixes Velvet Underground melodies, Black Sabbath riffs, and playful grooves, and has fun doing it.'^[73]Time Out said of the album: 'One of Britain's greatest bands just got greater in an unexpected but hugely welcome way. Single men, I urge you: put down FHM and pick up AM.'^[74] In their 10/10 review, NME wrote that AM is 'absolutely and unarguably the greatest record of their career'.^[75] In his 8/10 review, J.C. Maçek III of PopMatters praised Turner for being 'at his most poetic to date', and called the album 'a wonderfully cohesive and diverse album that fits together incredibly well'.^[76] Tim Jonze of The Guardian noted that the album 'manages to connect those different directions – the muscular riffs of Humbug and the wistful pop of Suck It and See – with the bristling energy and sense of fun that propelled their initial recordings'.^[77]Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal called AM 'paranoid and haunted'.^[78].

Upon the release of AM on 9 September 2013, the album debuted at number 1 in the UK album charts, selling over 157,000 copies in its first week.^[79] As a result, Arctic Monkeys made history as the first independent label band with five consecutive number 1 albums in the UK.^[80] The album received widespread critical acclaim and brought Arctic Monkeys their third nomination for the Mercury Prize.^[81] The album also won the Brit award for Best British Album.^[82]

Alex Turner described AM as the band's 'most original [album] yet,' merging hip-hop drum beats with 1970s heavy rock. The frontman has said that the song 'Arabella' expresses the two styles of the album most effectively in one track. On AM, Turner continued to experiment with unusual lyrics, and the album includes the words from poem 'I Wanna Be Yours' by John Cooper Clarke.^[83] Turner has stated that Homme's appearance on the song 'Knee Socks' marks his favourite moment of the whole album.^[84]

Arctic Monkeys headlined the Reading and Leeds Festival in August 2014. The band had a handful of shows in late 2014, which closed the AM Tour. In December 2014, 'Do I Wanna Know?' was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.^[85]

On 24 August 2014, the band announced a hiatus following their AM Tour.^[86] Turner and Helders have both pursued other projects during this time. In 2016, Turner announced his second album with the Last Shadow Puppets, Everything You've Come to Expect. Helders played the drums on Iggy Pop's album Post Pop Depression. On 6 July 2016, all four members of the band appeared together in public for the first time since the end of their AM tour. It was to promote the Sheffield Children's Hospital arts trail.

2017–present: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino[edit]

In December 2016, Alex Turner confirmed to BBC Radio Sheffield that the band's hiatus had ended and work had begun on their sixth studio album.^[87] In May 2017, photos emerged of the band working on new music in Los Angeles.^[88] O'Malley confirmed the album had begun recording in September 2017 with a release in 2018.^[89]

On 5 April 2018, the band announced the name of the forthcoming album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino^[90] which was released on 11 May 2018. The band took on a very new direction with Tranquility Base, bringing in more pianos and toning down on the guitars.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2018, the band headlined in the Voodoo Experience 2018 festival along with Childish Gambino and Mumford & Sons.^[91].

Despite its stylistic deviation polarising listeners, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino was released to generally positive reviews and nominated for the 2018 Mercury Prize for best album and the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. It became the band's sixth consecutive number-one debut in the UK, and the country's fastest-selling vinyl record in 25 years. Following its release, the album was promoted by the singles 'Four Out of Five' and 'Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino', as well as a global tour and multiple television appearances.

Arctic Monkeys Do I Wanna Know Chords

Reflektor Magazine had the following to say about the album in a review, 'After five years of silence, the Arctic Monkeys make their much-awaited return with surprising and hypnotic Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. Perfectly managing to avoid self-parody or stylistic repetitions, this new album appears as a startling reinvention, a meandering and puzzling journey beyond known territories. Just like mankind first set foot on the moon on the ‘Tranquility base’ site, the Arctic Monkeys disembark in an unknown universe in which they reveal a new, unexpected aspect of themselves.'^[92].

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino was nominated for the 2018 Mercury Prize, an annual prize awarded to the year's best British or Irish album. This became the band's fourth nomination for the award: the second most nominations received by any act.^[93] The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, with single 'Four Out of Five' nominated for Best Rock Performance.^[94]

The album also appeared on numerous year-end lists. At Album of the Year, which creates an aggregate of music critic's year-end lists, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino was listed as the fourteenth best album of the year,^[95] with Q^[96] and Kitty Empire of The Observer^[97] naming it the best album of 2018. Publications including NME,^[98]The Independent^[99] and Mojo^[100] also listed Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino as the year's second best album. Uproxx,^[101]BBC Radio 6 Music^[102] and Entertainment Weekly^[103] included the album in the top five of their year-end lists, with Vulture^[104] and The Guardian^[105] including the album in their top ten. Publications that listed the album in their top twenty include Flood,^[106]Paste^[107] and The Line of Best Fit.^[108] Numerous publications included Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino in their top fifty albums of the year, including Crack Magazine,^[109]Esquire,^[110]musicOMH,^[111]Pitchfork,^[112]Uncut^[113] and Louder Than War,^[114] while Noisey^[115] listed the album in their top hundred.

Musical style and influences[edit]

The band have usually been categorised under the indie rock,^{[54][116][117]}garage rock^[118] and post-punk revival genres.^[119] A key part of their sound, and one that translates across their whole discography, is lead singer and frontman Alex Turner's intricate and often rapidly delivered lyrics, sung in a distinctive strong Sheffield accent that their music became famed for in their early years. A large part of their iconic British sound is credited to the punk poet John Cooper Clarke from whom the Arctic Monkeys even borrowed lyrics and the title in 'I Wanna Be Yours'. Turner adapted Clarke's method of delivery mostly in their first album, Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not. Their early albums Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and Favourite Worst Nightmare were rooted in garage rock and post-punk revival, with Turner's sharp lyrics the focal point. On the first album Alex Turner examined human behaviour in nightclubs and in the culture of the band's hometown, Sheffield. Turner describes 'Dancing Shoes' as being about 'people always looking to pull when they go out however much they mask it'.^[120]

These themes continued on the following album Favourite Worst Nightmare with the band still progressing as musicians. Songs such as 'Fluorescent Adolescent' and 'Do Me a Favour' explored failed relationships, nostalgia and growing old, while musically the band took up a more uptempo and aggressive sound.

Their third album Humbug includes strong psychedelic rock, stoner rock and desert rock elements, due to the influence of the album's producer and Queens of the Stone Age frontman, Josh Homme. For Humbug, the band actively sought a new sound. Homme was quoted saying, 'They came to me: 'Will you take us to the weird and the strange?'^[121]

Their fourth album Suck It and See sees the band exploring styles, mixing them with newfound maturity. Turner said: 'I think the new album is a balance between our first three. There's nothing about taxi ranks or anything like that, but there's a bit of the standpoint I had on those early songs and the sense of humour, but also there's a bit of the 'Humbug' stuff which is kind of off in the corners.'^[122] Critics noted an influence from British rock bands from the 1960s, as well as the Smiths, and slower, love-themed ballads featured more heavily on the album than the fast-paced, rockier songs that typify the band's sound. Turner wrote much of the album in his apartment on an acoustic guitar, further influencing the ballad-style prevalent on the album.^[123]

In a 2012 interview with Pitchfork, frontman Alex Turner recalled that he and his friends were fans of Oasis,^[124][125] and that his mother 'would always play the Eagles too, so I'm word-perfect on shitloads of Eagles tunes'.^[126] He also listened to rappers such as OutKast, Eminem, Wu Tang and Roots Manuva, amongst others.^[126] He cited John Lennon, Ray Davies, Nick Cave and Method Man as major influences lyrically.^[126] When speaking about Lennon in an interview with NME, Turner said; 'I remember when I first started writing songs, and writing lyrics, I really wanted to be able to write an 'I Am the Walrus' type song, and I found it very difficult. You listen to that and it sounds like it's all nonsense, but it's difficult to write that sort of thing and make it compelling. Lennon definitely had a knack for that'.^[127]

According to the band, their fifth album AM is more hip-hop influenced. As Alex Turner stated in an interview with NME, it's 'like a Dr. Dre beat, but we've given it an Ike Turner bowl-cut and sent it galloping across the desert on a Stratocaster'.^[128] He also cited Outkast, Aaliyah and Black Sabbath as influences for the album on the song 'Arabella'.^[129][130]

Their sixth album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino took on a different direction, substituting the guitar-heavy sound from their previous albums for a more complex, piano-based style of composition. In a 2018 interview with BBC Radio 1, Alex Turner explained that he wrote the songs for the album on a piano instead of the guitar as 'the guitar had lost its ability to give me ideas. Every time I sat with a guitar I was suspicious of where it was gonna go. I had a pretty good idea of what I might be which is completely contrary to what I felt when I sat at the piano.”^[131] Alex also stated that he received inspiration from three Jean-Pierre Melville films—Un Flic, Le Cercle Rouge, and Le Samouraï, as well as the film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories named Spirits Of The Dead.^[132]

Band members[edit]

Discography[edit]

• Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
• Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
• Humbug (2009)
• Suck It and See (2011)
• AM (2013)
• Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018)

Concert tours[edit]

• Whatever People Say I Am Tour (2005–06)
• Favourite Worst Nightmare Tour (2007–08)
• Humbug Tour (2009–10)
• Suck It and See Tour (2011–12)
• AM Tour (2013–14)
• Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Tour (2018–19)

Awards and nominations[edit]

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External links[edit]

• Official website
• Arctic Monkeys at Curlie