In a bit of a surprise move for everyone, the Arctic Monkeys have announced the full track list and release date for their upcoming album, AM, due out September 9th on Domino Records. After prepping us with some teasers for the new album, ("R U Mine" way back in February of last year and the more recently released "Do I Wanna Know", that's only been out for a few days), the rest of the pieces seem to be falling into place for the Monkees (the temptation to call them just that cannot be just me), to launch a full on tour in support of the new material. Most interestingly, Josh Homme will be featured on AM, though it's unknown at this time to what capacity. Seeing as Alex Turner was willing to contribute lyrics, guitar, and some barely their vocals for Josh's newest album with Queens Of The Stone Age, it's not too out of the realms of possibility to except he'll be at least heavily featured on one song. I can't tell if they're just really tight like that (this is not Homme's first collaboration with Arctic Monkeys. "All My Own Stunts" from Suck It And See featured his backing vocals), or if it's a series of musicians doing solids for each other until one of them is even. But whatever they've got going on I like it. Suck It And See wasn't my favorite Arctic Monkeys album, but it did have some catchy as hell singles.("Don't Sit Down, Cause I Moved Your Chair", comes to mind). And if the early tracks for AM are any indication, it looks like they'll be in the hit making business for the foreseeable future.
AM:
01 Do I Wanna Know? 02 R U Mine? 03 One for the Road 04 Arabella 05 I Want It All 06 No. 1 Party Anthem 07 Mad Sounds 08 Fireside 09 Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? 10 Snap Out Of It 11 Knee Socks 12 I Wanna Be Yours
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