[Iceman]

CBA with the quote, they said the new album will be 'fast'

[Iceman]

Arctic Monkeys have revealed plans to make a "heavier' new album.

The band's follow-up to 2011's Suck It And See will feature tracks similar to their most recent single 'R U Mine'.


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"I think we're going to go the direction of those heavier tunes. We did 'R U Mine', and I think that's where it's going to be at for us for the next record," frontman Alex Turner told Artrocker.

"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.

"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."

Drummer Matt Helders has previously said that the band would be "fake" if they returned to the sound of their first album.

[Jayson]

Great news, never really liked the soft stuff on Suck it and See

[Iceman]

I imagine this'll be out by October/November.

[Jayson]

With that and Muse's new album coming out this year I'm a happy chappy

[Iceman]

Oh maybe later if Last Shadow Puppets get together......

[Jayson]

How likely is that looking?

[Iceman]

On 6 January 2012, Miles Kane confirmed that he will reunite with Arctic Monkeys' singer Alex Turner to record again as The Last Shadow Puppets, possibly as soon as at the end of this year. He is currently on tour with the Arctic Monkeys across Australia and has said that he and Turner will record the follow-up to 2008's The Age Of The Understatement "when the time is right."

^^ though they've been saying that since 09

[Jayson]

Would be great if it happened but I'm not getting my hopes up :P

[Iceman]

I just want Alex to get his 6th Number 1 album......

[King Gizzard]

Heavy....hopefully that means a bit 1st album-ish

[Iceman]

Nah, we'll never get that back

[InOne]

The first Album was Indie-pop. Humbug Heavy would be good.

[King Gizzard]

Tonight there'll be a ruckus yeah regardless of what's gone beforeeee

[King Gizzard]

Originally Posted by InOne

The first Album was Indie-pop. Humbug Heavy would be good.

Wouldn't necessarily agree, indie pop is Kooks etc etc..at least AM's was heavier/faster/etc

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Nathan

Tonight there'll be a ruckus yeah regardless of what's gone beforeeee

-plays drums furiously-

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Nathan

Wouldn't necessarily agree, indie pop is Kooks etc etc..at least AM's was heavier/faster/etc

Yeah I do agree they definitely had a different and better sound than them lot. It was one single from the second album I was thinking of that they said themselves it was the more poppy choice for a single. I think it was Florecent Adolecent (sp)

[Iceman]

Arctic Monkeys guitarist Jamie Cook is to marry his girlfriend Katie Downes.

The musician proposed to the glamour model earlier this week, according to The Sun.

She said: "I'm so made up – excited and happy."

Cook has been dating Downes since 2006 after they met at a party in Liverpool.

Downes regularly works as a model for The Sun's Page 3, and has also appeared in Nuts, Loaded, Zoo and other magazines.

Arctic Monkeys recently completed their world tour in support of their 2011 record Suck It and See.

The band are expected to record a new album later this year after a short break.

Frontman Alex Turner recently promised a "heavier" album than its predecessor.

Congrats to him

[Iceman]

Come Together Right Now.....................

Olympics Opening Ceremony.

[Iceman]

Come Together Right Now.....................

Olympics Opening Ceremony.

[Iceman]

That was amazing. Didnt get a collab but **** it, song available on Itunes now

[Jayson]

They did Britain proud. Would have preferred Fluorescent Adolescent or When the Sun Goes Down to IBTYLGOTDF but they were fantastic <3

[Iceman]

Alexa chung tweeted Matt Helders earlier too..... i bet she's ****ing him and alex kills him.

[Iceman]

Downloaded Come Together already, its on constant play

[Iceman]

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