What can we expect from Arctic Monkeys again?
There is A thrill of emotion that travels the silence when a band like the Arctic Monkeys It seems on the verge of returningafter a wait that does not feed on certainties but of signs, of apparently marginal details that fans transform into clues. Like every time Alex Turner and his companions disappear behind the curtain of discretion, their absence becomes a language to be deciphered: The logo that reappears on the official website Instead of images of the latest album, “The Car” (here our review), A link to subscribe to a newsletter that was not there before, insistent voices of New studio sessions Book for November, the birth of a new companythe “Bang Bang Recordings LLP”, which takes the place of the most ephemeral Bang Bang Tour Services LLP. Three clues, perhaps evidence, perhaps suggestions, to which is added the recent post by josh homme of Queens of the Stone Age, who are more than enough to feed the Hype car, which has always accompanied the formation of Sheffield.
The clues on a possible new album
In fans, the hope that Arctic Monkeys are preparing to publish new music, has started to light up At the beginning of Augustfueled by small but significant signs who quickly took shape like clues. The first of these was the official website of the band, where all the references to “The Car” suddenly disappeared, replaced solely by the band logo, while a new link appeared to subscribe to the newsletter: a detail that, for the optimists, could announce an imminent announcement.
To this was added the second clue, shown on X/Twitter from the account “Has It Leaked“, known for its often confirmed rumors. According to what is written in a post, the group would have booked several studio sessions for the month of Novemberdespite the various solo commitments still confirmed by the members. Finally, the third clue – albeit unofficial – concerns the creation of a new company, the “Bang Bang Recordings LLP“, founded on August 6 by the four members of the group, a few months after the closure of the previous” Bang Bang Tour Services LLP “. For many fans – as also happens with other realities, such as the Radiohead – the closure of the company dedicated to tours and the birth of the new one reports A possible return to the studioa sign that the band focus could already be aimed at a new album.
Josh Homme’s post
To be added to the signals according to which something in the Arctic Monkeys is moving, it is The recent post shared by Josh Homme on the social networks of his Queens of the Stone Age. The relationship of the 52 -year -old musician with the Alex Turner band evolved since 2009, when he produced the third album together with James Ford “Humbug”, and then counted at “Suck It and See” and “AM”, as well as playing live on several occasions with the group. Homme and her band are found in these days in the hometown of the Arcic Monkeys for two great concerts at Rock n Roll Circusscheduled for 27 and 28 August. Already on the eve of the shows, the Qotsa frontman had shared his leisure plans to Sheffielddeclaring in a recent interview: “I just want to go in front of the childhood houses of all the boys of the Arctic Monkeys, take pictures and then send them to them”. According to Shared video on Instagramin which it appears in front of those who ironically define the “Symbolic places” related to the bandHomme’s desire has come true. In the clipmade with a playful tone, Josh first shows the town hall of Sheffield by presenting him as “the house of Matt Helders”, and then moved on to an old broken and abandoned air conditioner, who says to come from “Jamie Cook’s childhood”. Then arrived at Millennium Square, Homme indicates the steel spheres fountains – tribute to the steel tradition of the city – and the renames “the institute of the testicles for legally crazy”. He then continues with the clip of a child, who defines as “a living statue of Nick O’Malley”, and with the window that “Alex Turner dirty as a child”.
The tribute to the Arctic Monkeys in their hometown had also happened from the stage on the evening of August 27thwhen Homme has in concert Greet the band directly: “We have long -standing friends here, the Arctic Monkeys, and I knew this is the right place”.
At the same time they fed themselves The rumors about a possible presence of Turner and members at the Queens of the Stone Age concert and Sheffieldafter some fans shared photos of the band members in the city.
Arctic Monkeys: each album is an act of metamorphosis
The Arctic Monkeys they built their career on unpredictabilityon that ability to displace that made them one of the most fascinating and changing realities of the last twenty years. The debut of 2006, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m not“, It was an urban diary sculpted in the indie rock, a vivid portrait of Sheffield’s nightlife, with Turner as an ironic and sharp reporter. The band’s first album had been a debut so overwhelming as to generate immediate and overflow epigones, yet already left behind with the subsequent” Wovourite Worst Nightmare “, less rough, In the myth of the debut. an act of metamorphosis. With “Humbug“In 2009 the band embraced the psychedelic and desert atmospheres produced by Josh Hommeopening up to a darker imagination. Thanks to the next “Suck it and see“In 2011, the group also experienced a brighter lyricism, which then found its muscle and seductive counterpart in”AM“, The album that projected them in the global Olympus in 2013 thanks to heavy riffs and a biker rock aesthetic, with Alex Turner who treasured Josh Homme’s lesson recovering that Guascone Rocker charismacapable of finally conquering the American market. Then a new change came as soon as he saw the light “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino“Five years later, with a sophisticated conceptwritten on the piano, imbued with metaphors, who divided the public and criticism but consolidated the vocation of the Arcti Monkeys to go further. Until “The car“Of 2022, which revealed a new elegance of the band, with orchestral traits, where Turner dressed The role of enigmatic Croonermoving between refined musical architectures and teasts at times crypticfor someone fascinating, for others pleased.
How should the new play?
And it is precisely this attitude that not to repeat that makes it difficult to imagine what it might come later. How should a new album by Alex Turner and members play is a question that everyone could give their own answer. Although the majority indicates “AM” as the best successful work of the band or the turning point, which is now one of the symbolic and most successful albums of the British formation, The truth is that there is no “best album” of the Arctic Monkeys. Each disc is a universe in itself: there are those who remain faithful to the rough frenzy of the debut, those who celebrate the sensuality of “am”, who defends “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino“As if it were a work of art and who found their maturity in”The car“After growing together with Turner and members, abandoning adolescence and entering adulthood. There is no unique summit, but a constellation of different peaks, and for this There is not even an obligatory style to return to.
Perhaps the band’s future will not be a return to the origins or the reiteration of the latest experiments; Perhaps something unexpected will once again be, the result of those studio sessions of which you already murmur, or of the silent shadow of a new company which, according to many, announces the beginning of a new chapter. The only certainty, after all, is that The Arctic Monkeys have never written the same album twice. And that every time, for better or for worse, they put their cards back into play, inviting those who listen to them to do the same.
