We finally got confirmation last week that the sixth studio album is set to be released in 2018 for the ever popular UK indie rock band, Arctic Monkeys.
Bassist Nick O’Malley let slip in an interview with Motorcycle website ‘For The Ride’, that the band have started recording for their new album. Revealing that it is set for release next year. O’Malley also explained the process has begun this month in a secret location, and that if the release date isn’t in 2018 then “we’ve got problems”.
Formed way back in 2002, Arctic Monkeys are made up of lead singer Alex Turner, Matt Helders on drums, Jamie Cook on lead guitar, and Nick O’Malley on bass. The band have certainly grown in success from starting out in the North of England handing out demos at local studios in Sheffield, to now worldwide and award winning attention.
The new release would be the follow up to the Sheffield bands 2013 release of their fifth record AM. Which certainly held the band at the top of their game after it went straight to No.1 in the albums chart, as well as being Mercury Prize nominated and Best British album winning. This is host to Grammy award nominated single ‘Do I Wanna Know’, ‘Why Do You Only Call Me When You’re High’ and NME awards best track ‘R U Mine’.
Nick also talked about how the front man of the band Alex Turner has kept busy with his involvement in other band Last Shadow Puppets. Who after an eight year wait since their no.1 debut album The Age Of The Understatement, released second studio album follow up ‘Everything you’ve come to expect’ on 1st April 2016. Some may say this is suave Turner’s ‘side project’ with Liverpool musical chum Miles Kane. It seems Turner uses the Last Shadow Puppets to indulge in the more extravagant edges of pop, and isn’t the only band member to have other things going on outside of the multimillion selling Arctic Monkeys. Guitarist Jamie Cook and bassist Nick O’Malley are both fathers, raising children and doing normal family life while drummer Matt Helders is touring with Iggy Pop.
Fans have already speculated the band working together in the studio, due to a series of promising Instagram photos that were posted earlier this year in April. Helders shared a photo of his drum kit surrounded by microphones.
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Then last month photographer Daniele Cavalli posted images of Alex Turner at a piano, as well as other photos of the band together in Los Angeles.
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After their growing and busting award cabinet, their next album has high expectations, but they leave us with no choice but to have no concerns that the band won’t produce some absolute classic bangers.
