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Rock en Seine 2011, Arctic Monkeys. Artists | Arctic Monkeys. The band’s initials, a new morning, an analogue radio frequency and an existential statement - the title of Arctic Monkeys’ fifth album AM suggests all of those things and more. And the record itself lives up to this pithily resonant billing by being, in drummer Matt Helders’ typically forthright estimation, “the album we’ve always been waiting to make”. It starts with a sumptuously squelchy synthetic-sounding beat. This turns out to have been built out of all too human body parts, as all four Arctic Monkeys got together to contribute foot-stamps and knee-slaps - “which might make people think of Lederhosen,” admits frontman Alex Turner, “but really it’s the antithesis of that... and there was no bunting either.”
So AM’‘s opening moments eschew the queasy camaraderie of the ersatz hoedown in favour of a tautly compressed human pulse? “I like the way it feels dead wooden”, chimes in Matt Helders, in the unabashedly earth-bound spirit of drummers from time immemorial. Arctic Monkeys : Home. Arctic Monkeys releasing James Ford-produced album this year.