Arctic Monkeys ‘back in Sheffield to record a new album’

The Arctic Monkeys are back home in Sheffield with a view to recording a new album, claims the BBC.

After pictures of the bandmates hanging in Sheffield began circulating on social media, the BBC’s local reporter Shamir Masri stoked the fires a bit more by writing on Twitter that Alex Turner had told him, ‘they are coming back to Sheffield to pen a new album’.

Since achieving real success in the US for the first time with 2013’s AM and particularly the single Do I Wanna Know?, Turner has been concentrating on the relaunch of his Last Shadow Puppets partnership with Miles Kane, resulting in this year’s second record Everything You’ve Come To Expect. It was a reunion whose origins he discussed with Live4ever during an interview in New York:

“For me I’d always thought if we were going to do one of these again we’d need a stimulus like we had the first time,” he said. “We’d just become friends and were enjoying each others’ company. We had something we were chasing after that we’d just found, and I thought if we were going to do it again, do we need a new thing that we’re going to be chasing after?”

“I realised that’s not the case because, as important as that reference material was for the first record, really it’s about the songs themselves and us creating them together.”