The album, the band's fifth studio record, will be released on September 9 and features 12 tracks including the new single 'Do I Wanna Know?'. The song 'Mad Sounds', first played at the Hultsfred festival in Sweden earlier this year, also appears alongside 2012 single 'R U Mine?'. Scroll down to see the full tracklisting for 'AM'.
Produced by James Ford, the album features appearances from Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme plus former The Coral member Bill Ryder-Jones and Elvis Costello's drummer Pete Thomas. The words of punk poet John Cooper Clarke appear on the track 'I Wanna Be Yours'.
Arctic Monkeys headline Glastonbury festival this Friday (June 28), performing on the opening day of the festival on the Pyramid Stage. Drummer Matt Helders has said that the band plan to "have a bit of fun" with their setlist at the festival on what will be the second time that the band have headlined the Pyramid Stage, following their appearance in 2007. "I'm prepared for what it entails in way, but I think in terms of preparation we can mould a different kind of setlist for it and have a bit more fun with it," said Helders.
Exclusive B-side, '2013' will be released 22/7/13.
All signs are pointing to AM being streamed on their official website this Monday, 9/2. But please feel free to leak before that, album. Thanks.
check this guys!
WHAT THE HOLLY FUCK why it hasn’t leaked yet ?????
I feel the “NO, it has not leaked” gets bigger every day…
Every day that this doesn’t get leaked feels like a stab to the heart…
Hoping for a leak SOON!!
is this a fact or your feelings?
Sadly only feelings :(
It feels like I’ve been waiting forever. Leak already :(
The Arctic Monkeys US servers are down on the forums. I went to a torrent site. AM Leak ALbum added within 10 minutes ago. I think we might have our leak.
really?
which torrent site Ben?
Which site Ben?
I can’t believe someone hasn’t leaked a promo/review copy. Don’t these people understand how badly I need to hear some new Arctic Monkeys songs?
there is a 15 second preview of all the songs out, but thats all.
Promo/review copies are watermarked, so if one of those are leaked Domino can trace it back to that single journalist who leaked it.
There are retail-copies of the album floating around, though. So if one of those leaks it’s harder to trace who did it.
un leak ve fa schifo ah.
Word on the street is Paddy Considine’s got a copy he’s trying to put online. Reckon’s it’ll Leak Before The Lights Come On…
I’m sorry, shit humour is all I have in this time of desperation.
are you sure or just trolling?
I’ve been a bit upset by the tracks released so far. They aren’t doing anything that exciting or interesting which is a shame. Hopefully other tracks on the album will be better, but so far it feels like the album will just plod very slowly through with the occasional chant-y chorus.
i cant wait guys for it!!
CMON LEAK ALREADY!!!
Previews of AM.
http://arcticmonkeysus.tumblr.com/post/59716788048/iseelucyinthesky-am-previews-do-i-wanna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTej-GhUws Arabella live OMG
so good…that’s why previews don’t do songs any justice
Arabella live, in case anybody wants it… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTej-GhUws
I was there ha – great show…why’d you only call me was class live as well (no mad sounds though unfortunately)
I’m pretty confident the album will suck. Especially compared to their previous works. And don’t start with “hurr band change, they can’t always sound the same” please
[insert band name] will never be as good as on [insert band’s first album]
Nah, it’s not that. That mindset is stupid. I’m all for change, I’m happy that AM didn’t keep doing music in the style of Whatever, but progressed with every album. SIAS was still a decent album with some great moments, but everything I’ve heard from this, maybe except Do I Wanna Know? and R U Mine?, has been very underwhelming for me. Hearing basically the same riff over and over in 4 different songs doesn’t help building my excitement… I was hoping the band went a bit back to their Humbug sound (just because that’s my favourite era of theirs), but it seems like the “dry”, desert-ish production of the tracks, which imo fits only rockier songs (ie. DIWK?), was applied to every song of the album, which seems like it’s full of poppier songs (which obviously isn’t a problem per se)
Oh and my favourite AM album is Humbug.
Well, I’ve heard the same whining when “Suck It And See” came out.
And surely you’d agree that SIAS is not their best album so far, right? It’s not a matter of “every band is better in their early years” though
Yeap, that’s not the best album at least for me. But anyway, over time I found this record to be quite amazing.
Praying for a leak, the forum has been down for a while and the track previews all sound delish.
the forum is down because all the traffic towards it costs way too much to maintain but it will be up soon.
Arabella Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTej-GhUws
ARABELLA LIVE !!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTej-GhUws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpjBf32HUHc
These are not in the album but there are 3 b-sides on the 3 singles released that I didn’t know about, so if anyone else didn’t know here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-cukZ10j8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vkZUC4VPA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PyoxMSEHYI
Everyday this doesn’t leak I die a little inside…
The forum is back up…