Arctic Monkeys by Zackery Michael
Live4ever’s recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes the long-awaited new album announcement from Arctic Monkeys and more big UK shows for Muse.
Arctic Monkeys have confirmed the details of their seventh studio album.
The Car was recorded across three studio locations – Butley Priory in Suffolk, La Frette in Paris and RAK in London – with the band’s regular producer James Ford, and includes I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am which was handed a live debut in Zurich last week.
It follows Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino – a Live4ever album of the year in 2018.
Following a run of single releases, Greentea Peng has unveiled a new mixtape entitled ‘GREENZONE 108’.
Talent is coursing through the collection – aside from Peng there’s production and collaboration credits from Nat Powers, Jon Mills, MJ Cole, Swindle and St Francis Hotel.
“GREENZONE 108 is a free flowing, open field of expression,” Peng said. “A collection of works accumulated over a transitional period of my life.”
Coldplay have added more dates to their 2023 European tour.
Fans in Manchester will now get four nights at the Etihad Stadium with new gigs on the 3rd and 4th of June, and there’s a second concert in Cardiff on June 7th.
Around mainland Europe, there’s also additional appearances in Barcelona, Naples, Milan, Zurich, Gothenburg and Amsterdam.
Muse by Nick Fancher
Muse have announced a clutch of outdoor UK concerts during the spring of next year.
They’ll start on May 23rd back home in Devon at Plymouth’s Home Park venue and continue on to Huddersfield, Glasgow and Milton Keynes in June.
Before then, European and North American shows are booked for this autumn, including a New York date at the Beacon Theatre.
Caitlin Rose has unveiled her first new album in nine years with its lead track Black Obsidian.
“I think it’s common for people to fall into or back into difficult relationships after great personal setbacks,” Rose said.
“They can give you a kind of escape from yourself. It gives you this mostly impossible puzzle of trying to figure out what it is the other person is missing, what you could give them to make them whole, then depriving yourself of it in the process.”
The National have resumed their fruitful association with Bon Iver on the new single Weird Goodbyes.
The track was out not long before the band’s appearance at All Points East this month – Aaron Dessner has had this to say on it:
“Weird Goodbyes was one of the first new songs we made. I was misusing drum machines, as usual, and stumbled onto this beat that got stuck in my head – it felt like something only Bryan could naturally play.”
