Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner: 'Josh Homme's Contribution On New Album Is Really Exciting'

Queens of the Stone Age star Josh Homme is set to feature on Arctic Monkeys’ forthcoming new album ‘AM’ - and the band’s frontman Alex Turner has claimed that his contribution is ‘really exciting’.

Stereoboard revealed yesterday that the Sheffield outfit would be releasing a new album on September 9, and that Josh Homme, Pete Thomas and Bill Ryder-Jones all make guest appearances.

Now, ahead of the album’s release, Turner has opened up about the addition of Homme (who previously invited Turner to feature on QOTSA’s new album ‘...Like Clockwork’) to the team to BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe:

"The Josh thing was very much a case of one of us returning a back scratch to the other… he came down and sort of got us out of a little rut. It's just fun, it's friends, extended family now – [they] came round, had a fun night. His contribution to our record is really exciting, it's probably my favourite.

"The 30 seconds that he's in there is just, I dunno, it's like something that I've never heard before. Not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but you know what I’m saying."

Turner also spoke about the album’s new name - and claimed it was all to do with Velvet Underground’s album ‘VU’ (and not Beady Eye’s new record ‘BE’):

"I actually stole it from the Velvet Underground, I'll just confess that now and get it out of the way. The 'VU' record, obviously. Did we cop out? Yeah! Summat about it feels like this record is exactly where we should be right now. So it felt right to just initial it."

You can check out Arctic Monkeys’ new track ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ below - look out for them headlining Glastonbury Festival this weekend.

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