Arctic Monkeys announce seventh album 'The Car'
Arctic Monkeys have officially announced their seventh album The Car.
The Sheffield rockers also confirmed that the 10 track album will be released on 21 October.
A press release for the album says The Car “finds Arctic Monkeys running wild in a new and sumptuous musical landscape and contains some of the richest and most rewarding vocal performances of Alex Turner‘s career”.
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The Car is also produced by longtime collaborator James Ford who has worked on every Arctic Monkeys album since their second release Favourite Worst Nightmare.
The band debuted a new track entitled I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am on Tuesday night during a live performance in Zurich.
The tracklist for The Car confirms that the song will be on the upcoming album.
The album cover was shot by drummer Matt Helders and features a car parked atop a multi-storey carpark.
The new album from Arctic Monkeys, ‘The Car’ is out 21st October. Pre-order now https://t.co/QWACEVpsAr pic.twitter.com/rImMFpEL0b
— Arctic Monkeys (@ArcticMonkeys) August 24, 2022
Helders recently spoke to the BBC and teased what the album would sound like, saying: “We tend to always move it on a little bit. For us, because we’re so involved in it, it always makes sense. They always kind of pick up where the other one left off in a way.
"It makes sense when you think about it in the context of the last record. But we always do try and do something a bit different – it’s kind of hard to describe. You can tell it’s the same band.”
Arctic Monkeys are set to headline Reading and Leeds Festival this weekend, their only confirmed UK live performances of 2022.
The other headliners at Reading and Leeds are rapper Dave, Megan Thee Stallion, The 1975, Halsey and Bring Me The Horizon.
Rage Against the Machine were originally supposed to headline the festival but pulled out due to health issues relating to singer Zach de la Rocha. They were subsequently replaced with The 1975.
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