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Turner has been quoted saying that the Arctics wouldn’t exist without The Strokes and though he’s talked about it in the press, there’s something quite special, vulnerable and ballsy about putting that line on paper and delivering it to open an album. The album opens with Star Treatment, as Turner reflects on the band’s 15-year career, in the opening line “I just wanted to be one of The Strokes / Now look at the mess you made me make” giving a nod to their early years as a band, their obsession with The Strokes and their evolution as a band since then.

As a product of those two factors and perhaps the five year period to ponder the gargantuan commercial success of AM, we get this radical, space-themed concept album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, where the band seems to have a grand David Bowie meets Father John Misty moment. Everything began to fall into place as Turner’s intrigue for writing on a somewhat foreign instrument began to intersect with his budding interest in science fiction literature and films, particularly those of Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey). Frontman Alex Turner even admitted that when he picked up a guitar to start writing for the new record, he felt like he already knew what the songs were going to end up sounding like and he began to feel the ideas drying up.īut then, his songwriting spark returned in the form of an unlikely source: a piano he’d received for his 30th birthday.

Fans were beginning to worry that a new Arctics record was still far off or that the band were on an indefinite hiatus.

In the seemingly long and dreaded five-year gap since we last saw Alex Turner and co., Turner co-wrote and produced Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter Alexandra Savior’s debut album and made a second record with his side project duo, The Last Shadow Puppets. The Arctic Monkeys’ highly anticipated sixth studio album has been the subject of mythical rumours for years since their 2013 commercial and critical megahit, AM.

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