![]() ![]() Turner, who’s long admired the stylistic shape-shiftings of John Lennon and David Bowie, wanted to do something that sounded nothing like the last Monkeys record – the platinum-certified AM, full of snaking guitar riffs and heavy grooves. Turner started writing the new album in 2016, up the hill in his home studio, sitting at a Steinway Vertegrand piano that his manager bought him as a birthday present. It’s barely 10 a.m., but he’s wearing a crisp vintage tan suit – safari pockets, flared legs – as he slides into a booth: “Christian Dior,” he says. It’s mid-April, a few weeks before the album’s May 11 release, and the Monkeys frontman has just descended from his home in the Hollywood Hills to a cafe for breakfast. Which, to hear Alex Turner tell it, is more or less exactly how Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino was born. The first Arctic Monkeys album in five years is lush and claustrophobic at the same time – it calls to mind a guy going a little nutty in a small room in a nice house on a hill, constructing a fantasy world in his head and setting his visions to piano.
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