Posted March 30, 201015 yr Arctic Monkeys are set to begin work on their next album immediately after their north American tour finishes next month. Speaking to NME Radio's Jon Hillcock, the band are playing a series of shows, but rather than take time off they will begin writing and recording the follow-up to 'Humbug'. The band played probably their last UK show for the time being on Sunday (March 28) when they performed third album 'Humbug' in full in London. "We've said we'll stop touring this album and we're eager to start working on new stuff again, not have time off again," explained drummer Matt Helders. He added that though the group were keen to work with Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme again as a producer, he was unsure whether both groups would be free at the same time. "It's hard to say, both parties are up for it but they have a lot going on around the time we'd need to be recording," he explained, "but we'd like to." While admitting he was not sure how the album would sound, frontman Alex Turner admitted the band have been writing new songs already. "We haven't tied our shoelaces yet, so it's hard to say [what it would sound like] there's a few things we've been playing around together and we've spoke about how we might go about it," he said. "We haven't started walking yet, the laces are undone, never mind dancing." Meanwhile, Helders added that he had asked his friend P Diddy about rumours he was buying London football team Crystal Palace, but the rapper was playing his cards close to his chest. "I tried to get the info and said he couldn't tell me," admitted the drummer. "He laughed it off as a joke and didn't give me any information. But why else would he have heard of Crystal Palace? When I mentioned it I thought he'd say 'Who'? He said he likes the name."
March 30, 201015 yr Arrrr brilliant news. ;D Hopefully it sounds like a mix of the 1st & 2nd with the 3rd.
March 31, 201015 yr Great news . I hope they will add a dash from the anthemic sound of LSP-project :dance: They really should left the Humbug era... Somehow the indie bands are fighting with the curse of third album :lol: . Which is a pity as i liked the songs from Humbug.
April 1, 201015 yr I'm looking forward to hearing good stuff from the 4th album! How did the 3rd album do? It pretty much completely missed my radar.
April 1, 201015 yr Author Has sold about 130,000 I think. Domino pretty much messed up the release of it - wrong lead single, wrong releasing the download too early, and it sorted of killed off any chance of other singles doing well. Shame really, it's a decent album - just not as good as the first two imo.
April 1, 201015 yr It certainly hasn't infiltrated me or the people I talk to, so I assume that means it was either less good or less mainstream. I do hope they come back with a belter because I like a bit of the Monkeys ^_^
April 1, 201015 yr I suppose the songs were a little bt too "quiet" on this album. Not so direct, so bold as the ones from the first two albums. Were more subtle in sound.
April 1, 201015 yr It certainly hasn't infiltrated me or the people I talk to, so I assume that means it was either less good or less mainstream. I do hope they come back with a belter because I like a bit of the Monkeys ^_^ Yes basically a lot of people are pissed off that they're not singing songs about getting drunk again and doing WPSITWIN part two -_- If they did do that they'd be like The Enemy or Pigeon Detectives :puke2:
April 1, 201015 yr Yes basically a lot of people are pissed off that they're not singing songs about getting drunk again and doing WPSITWIN part two -_- If they did do that they'd be like The Enemy or Pigeon Detectives :puke2: :heehee: It's my least favourite of the three, but not by far. It's still an amazing album.
August 9, 201014 yr Looking back on it, "Humbug" was a very good third album in terms of the band's natural progression and it's pretty clear now they'll struggle to maintain sales and remain critical darlings.
August 20, 201014 yr :heehee: It's my least favourite of the three, but not by far. It's still an amazing album. I said it in another topic, but I'll repeat it here. Humbug is definitely my most favourite Arctic Monkeys album. :o I hope the next one is more rocky.
August 21, 201014 yr ^^ :o Humbug was pretty poor imo, it is decent album, but not that amazing as whatewer... & flourescent..
