chart history upon its release, and earned a Grammy nomination for best alternative music album. But there was a pressure, in that we step it up and do something different again - try and fly high.”Īrctic Monkeys have been flying high since the arrival of the band’s racing 2005 debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, which became the fastest-selling debut album in U.K. “With the commercial success of the last record,” he says with a pause - briefly tripping over the words “commercial success,” as if it were a foreign phrase - “I don’t think I felt the pressure of that hanging over the creative process.
AM was sonically different from 2011’s Suck It and See, and he was encouraged by that to take yet another turn.
Turner’s new instrumental playground resulted in Arctic Monkeys’ most ambitious album to date.
