Arctic Monkeys are used to topping the charts. Their 2006 debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, followed by Favourite Worst Nightmare, Humbug, Suck It And See, and AM also all debuted at the top of the UK album chart.
For those of you who haven’t heard the album, it is unlike anything the Arctic Monkeys have produced before, featuring piano and strange sci-fi themes which Alex Turner claims are inspired by Blade Runner. It sounds more like something that Turner would have produced as part of his solo career but he said this was not the case.
“I was never interested in making a solo album,” Turner said. “I am a part of this band and one would disrespect the other. Nevertheless, I wanted to make this music, it was in me. When you compose on the piano, you automatically get different results than on the guitar. And it was important to me to say goodbye to the realism of most of the Arctic Monkeys stuff.”
