Additional reporting by Peyam Zangana

The indie rock super group The Last Shadow Puppets are set to release their heavily anticipated second album in early 2016 as recording is finished.

The band, which is made up of Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner, The Rascals lead singer Miles Kane and Simian Mobile Disco drummer James Ford, released their very first album in 2008 with ‘The Age of the Understatement’ which was an immediate success; being nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize, but ultimately losing out to Elbow’s ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’.

When speaking to Chilean music site ‘Rock & Pop’, drummer James Ford had this to say on the new album:

“This year, I’ve just done a Last Shadow Puppets record, which is the guy from Arctic Monkeys and Miles,” Ford said. “So we did the follow-up album to that. That’s the last thing I did.”

Two years ago in 2013 Alex Turner spoke to NME discussing the future prospects for The Last Shadow Puppets:

“It’s something we’d both love to do at some point but I don’t know what that point is. I certainly don’t think it’s tomorrow. Miles is doing his thing and that’s going great. It’s like he’s become whole. Although he always was a superstar, wasn’t he?”

Listen to the eponymously titled single from their first album below:

Since their last release in 2008, Alex Turner has arguably gone onto bigger things, with the release of AM in 2013 being regarded as one of the most defining albums of the decade so far.

The new album is expected to feature work from solo artist, composer and member of Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett, who worked with The Last Shadow Puppets on their debut album, arranging the strings. A while ago, Pallett tweeted – and deleted – a hint about recording a new album with the supergroup, saying that the album was beginning to fuse with the “classic status”. The full tweet from Pallett read:

“That rare and thrilling moment when the record you’re working on crosses the threshold into Classic Status #tlsp2″.

Earlier in 2013, Kane also mentioned that he was certain something would happen again eventually. In an interview with NME he mentioned:

“I think the plan is to release something again, for sure…Since we did that [Alex Turner] has been busy and I had to find my feet by being on my own. If it comes after the end of this cycle and the end of his next record we’ll probably both be ready and really up for it. It’s just on the sidelines, there’s nothing written for it.”

The Age of Understatement conquered new territory for Miles Kane and Arctic Monkey’s Alex Turners typical style, with a Phil Spector-esque sense of scope and a romantic, vivid lyricism with the likes of “Standing Next To Me”. So who’s ready for the killer-combination of Alex Turner and Miles take two? Watch out for their new album which is set to come out in 2016.