James Ford - the producer behind every Arctic Monkeys album since their sophomore effort ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’, and one half of Simian Mobile Disco - has opened up about the band’s latest record ‘AM’.
The band’s highly-anticipated new record drops on September 9 and ahead of its release, they’ve been teasing fans with details of its recording. Now, Ford has become the latest of the crew to spill some of the beans on ‘AM’. He told NME:
“On the last record we tried to do a 'band in a room' type thing, with barely any computers used. It was very much to tape. But this one was a case of 'all bets are off'. The band wanted to push things on and do something different. So to move it on and make it sound different we were very open to using bits of keyboards or drum machines, or whatever worked for the song really.
“There was no brief other than to make an interesting album. Obviously I'd seen the songs as they were demos, and I think that around the time of 'R U Mine?' they struck upon this riffy, slow and heavy thing. But then with this slightly strange hip-hop, slightly R&B sense to some of the melodies and structures. There was a bit of that in there. Really, they just wanted to push it on and do something different, and keep moving forward.”
Ford continued:
“My job is to really try and help bring their ideas out and distil and crystallise what they want it to be, and help them achieve that. There's a Sabbath-y thing in there too, but obviously it's all filtered through Alex's songwriting and the band's playing.”
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