Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/arctic-monkeys-album-title

Arctic Monkeys have revealed that their eagerly anticipated new album is due to be titled Humbug.

The Sheffield indie giants have been silent for too long. Arctic Monkeys last released an album with 2007's Favourite Worst Nightmare, touring extensively before the band took a break and embarked on a number of side projects.

Singer Alex Turner formed The Last Shadow Puppets with The Rascals singer Miles Kane. Combining a flair for indie pop with a love of the orchestral textures of singers such as Scott Walker debut album Age Of The Understatement was a massive success.

A headline performance at Reading and Leeds saw the band unveil their debut album in fine style, with producer James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco roped in on drums. Fellow Arctic Monkey Matt Helders, meanwhile, turned his hand at being a DJ mixing an instalment of All Back To Mine.

The band recorded the new album with Josh Homme in California. The Queens Of The Stone Age main man has apparently added a rock edge to the group's sound, with long term collaborator James Ford mixing the album in New York.

Arctic Monkeys unveiled new material in a tour of Australia and New Zealand earlier this year. Greeted rapturously by fans, the new songs are said to be more melodic than previous efforts with Alex Turner retaining his well worn croon from The Last Shadow Puppets.

Arctic Monkeys are set to headline Reading and Leeds this summer, with the band widely expected to unveil new material at the show. In addition to this the group are due to play a number of other events during the summer including Norway's Oya Festival and Serbia's legendary musical bash Exit.

Arctic Monkeys are set to release their new album Humbug on August 24th. Tracklisting is as follows:

1. My Propeller
2. Crying Lightning
3. Dangerous Animals
4. Secret Door
5. Potion Approaching
6. Fire And The Thud
7. Cornerstone
8. Dance Little Liar
9. Pretty Visitors
10. The Jeweller’s Hands

The Sheffield indie giants have been silent for too long

That's weird. Arctic Monkeys (what a horrible, pointless name) released two albums in two years, and now a third album just two years later. That's a pretty torrid release schedule.

they had been silent too long. this was only to be feared ;_;

i am sure they will pull a talk talk on us at some point and make an art-pop masterpiece

lol

Why on earth would do something terrible like that?

relax, they won't

instead they will churn out quality product after quality product

those song titles are all terrible and even worse next to each other

Fire And The Thud

lol.

song titles are better when read downwards

1. My Crying
2. Dangerous Secret
3. Potion Fire
4. Corner Dance
5. Pretty Jeweller
6. Propeller Lightning
7. Animal Door
8. Approaching And The Thud
9. Little Stone Liar
10. Visitors' Hands

...ok they're still not great. But this could be the next No Line On The Horizon-esque ILX project!

one of the best rock bands of the decade

they were totes awesome live and i'm pumped for this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pvHGS-iItg

sounds kind of good - not unlike stuff on the last album

yeah, it's a bit different and I quite like it.

Maybe I'm alone, but I loved the last one -- like Rooms on Fire and More Songs About Buildings and Food, it's a testament, not a rehasn.

It's not too bad on first listen. I can hear this sped up by maybe half in a live setting and liking it a lot more.

here is the album cover:

http://www.coverarts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Arctic-Monkeys-Humbug-Cover-Art-Design.jpg

I liked the last album at the time, but I've heard a couple of the songs from it recently and they sound pretty horrible, just constantly full-on. This one's not massively different (and obviously it's hard to tell about the sound), but it seems more confident somehow. I think it's the more measured pace, and the singing is much better. I like the album sleeve too.

Live Grauniad webcast of the new album right now: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jul/30/arctic-monkeys-new-album-live-webcast

Don't much like rock music these days, so it sounds pretty dreary to me.

3. Dangerous Animals
4. Secret Door
5. Potion Approaching
6. Fire And The Thud
7. Cornerstone

awesome fantasy rpg computer game soundtrack suite on paper

yeah the full album has leaked, hope that this is good.

I like the cover and I really like "Crying Lightning", I'm anxious to hear the whole thing.

They cut out what I liked about the first album. I hate when bands do that.

My ex boyfriend was a sound guy in Austin for a while and the arctic monkeys came to a venue he was working. Basically what it comes down to is they don't play live... Its a recording and they just strum along... he needed an input for an ipod and a couple mics

that first single sounded quite QOTSA and leaden. not much energy which is surprising/dissapointing for them.

dreadful cover, wtf! could be any band from the last, ooh, 40 years. pointless.

i like this idea:

The Arctic Monkeys will be releasing their new single, Crying Lightning, through Oxfam’s network of 700 charity shops, with proceeds going to help the charity’s lifesaving work around the world.

The limited-edition 7”, which is the first single from new album Humbug, features a cover of the Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ classic ‘Red Right Hand’ as a B-side, and goes on sale in every one of Oxfam’s 700 high street shops on Monday 17 August.

The release marks the first time Oxfam shops have sold a new release single for 25 years.

The ‘Crying Lightning’ 7” will cost £2.99, and each single will come with a download code allowing fans to get an MP3 version of the songs for free.

You can find your nearest Oxfam store here:

www.oxfam.org.uk/arcticmonkeys

My ex boyfriend was a sound guy in Austin for a while and the arctic monkeys came to a venue he was working. Basically what it comes down to is they don't play live... Its a recording and they just strum along... he needed an input for an ipod and a couple mics

― Sunny River, Friday, 31 July 2009 08:28 (4 days ago) Bookmark

heard this about glasvegas

sounds like jesus jones

find that hard to believe

though i remember reading something along the lines of them not being 100% responsible for their lyrics

Ah, the chattering classes...

secret doors is so morrisey. much better than that aspirational-smiths sounding song on the last album.

this is better than i thought it would be if not all that memorable on 1st listen.

My ex boyfriend was a sound guy in Austin for a while and the arctic monkeys came to a venue he was working. Basically what it comes down to is they don't play live... Its a recording and they just strum along... he needed an input for an ipod and a couple mics

― Sunny River, Friday, 31 July 2009 08:28 (4 days ago) Bookmark

heard this about glasvegas

― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:47 (3 weeks ago)

See, I just don't buy these stories. I mean if a band was doing this because they "don't play live", they'd be doing it at every tour stop right? Surely, in this day and age, word would get out pretty fucking fast among different sound guys that a band was doing this, right? Or do they make sound guys sign some confidentiality thing I don't know about?

I've heard about half of these now, sounds mostly like more of the same. 'Cornerstone' is really lovely though.

See I don't think this sounds like more of the same at all, unless we are talking strictly on a lyrical level. This has a punch and swagger that I really dig.

Cornerstone is a cut above Crying Lightning & the rest doesn't do much for me, really. Cornerstone really is fantastic tho

Ooh boy...

Back in 2006, when the first Arctic Monkeys album was released, I thought the band were annoyingly overpraised and I found their debut album incredibly samey - I could never for the life of me figure out why so much praise was going their way when Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party and many others were making better music.

The follow-up, Favourite Worst Nightmare had 'Fluorescent Adolescent' on it - a solid song, and 'Brianstorm' on it - a solid riff, but mostly it suffered from the same flaws as their debut with slightly better production and playing.

Then I forgot about the band, like most.

Then, in 2013, I gave AM a try - immediately I could hear a leap in progress, but was just as soon put off by the fact that the first two tracks were... well, very samey. Had they not learned how to really vary things?

...

Now here we are in 2017, I've been listening to their third record, Humbug, a lot over the last couple of days and finding it to be head and shoulders above anything else this band has released - such a muscular record, with great riffs ('My Propeller', 'Dangerous Animals') and the best song I've ever heard from them ('Cornerstone') ... and Alex Turner actually sings, and sings well, rather than shout at you in a Sheffield accent.

Great album, a diamond in the rough.

Then, in 2013, I gave AM a try - immediately I could hear a leap in progress, but was just as soon put off by the fact that the first two tracks were... well, very samey. Had they not learned how to really vary things?

you are saying "Do I Wanna Know" and "R U Mine" sound the same? this sort of blows my mind as "Do I Wanna Know" is the by far the biggest hit they have had in America. The song was massive here and was probably's KROQ's biggest song from 2013. at one time it felt like they were playing it every single hour. it was probably beyond massive here and put Arctic Monkeys on the map in the US. "R U Mine" just happens to be the next song. i think the thing that gets lost on AM is that is named appropriately. it is a come down album. it is meant to be played late at night or nursing a hang over. IMO, their masterpiece that sneaks up on you but doesn't reveal itself on the first few listens. it's a grower and only reveals itself after spending some time with it.

this was good (Red Right Hand cover etc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxsF8p4XY6o

Yeah, the first two songs on AM sound quite similar to me. Very similar riffs.

I remember reading at the time that people were a bit thrown by the musical/visual changes on Humbug but I like the direction they went in with it.

In my mind Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys released great, promising debuts around the same time (mid 00s if my memory doesnt betray me) will but nothing they released afterwards was particularly interesting to me. Of those bands Arctic Monkeys is the only band that seems to have gained more fans with each album. I've no idea if bloc Party or Franz Ferdinand are still around.

All three bands are still around, and all three have put out music that I like beyond their debuts.

In the case of Bloc Party, like most I think that Silent Alarm is their best record, but find something to enjoy on each of their first four albums. After their original rhythm section left, I got off the bus completely - Hymns is an awful record.

With Franz Ferdinand, I can take my pick from any of the first three albums and even Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action has its moments.

As for Arctic Monkeys, I thought their debut sucked at the time and still do. I don't think they got it together until Humbug, and listening to Suck It and See right now is making me wonder why people don't talk about it more because it's great! It's making me want to give AM another try.

Ah the Arctic Monkeys definitely sucked on their debut iirc they had a hard time recording in the studio because they kept missing the rhythm. I think that's part of the charm, they had the energy and the catchy songs before being actually good musicians.

AM is probably their most accomplished album but they sound like a different band. I miss the naiveity of the debut.

WHAT CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE DICKHEAD!?

'Pretty Visitors' is one for the air drummers... love it.