Arctic Monkeys Tell Fans New Album Will Be 'Heavier' Than Previous Efforts
Monday, 02 July 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
English indie-rockers Arctic Monkeys have promised fans that their next album - the follow up to last year’s ‘Suck it and See’ - will be much ‘heavier’ than previous efforts, and could mark a new direction for the band.
The Sheffield-based four-piece have spent the last year taking their instantly-recognisable sound across to the US, but are now working on new material and looking to the future. The band recently released new stand-alone single ‘R U Mine’ - and it now seems that future recordings by Alex Turner and co. will most likely feature a similar, heavier style.
“I think we're going to go the direction of those heavier tunes,” frontman Turner told Art Rock. “We did 'R U Mine', and I think that's where it's going to be at for us for the next record. We feel the strength of the last record is 'Don't Sit Down...', the other songs like that - 'Brick By Brick' - the other side of it is fine, but I don't know how much more of that we can do.”
He continued: “It would be nice to record in Sheffield, which we haven't done for a while. I was living in New York, and that's where I wrote a lot of those songs, and the fact that me and the other chaps were on either side of a large body of water - I wrote a lot on acoustic guitar in the flat. Then we went and applied to it what we thought they needed, which is not really a way that we worked before. Mostly it's the just the four of us hashing it out in a rehearsal space, but those kind of songs were in the minority on the last record due to circumstance really.”
You can check out their latest single ‘R U Mine’ out below.
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