Largely written on his own in the “Lunar Surface” - his Los Angeles home studio named for the theory of the faked moon landing - the lyrics have the cadence of poetry and invite annotation.

As a result, the writing on Tranquility is enlightened and evolved to the point of occasionally requiring a Google search for context. The songs that follow are so full, and each word so carefully selected, that the messiness he sings of is hardly even a consideration. So, then, it comes as no surprise that following the success of AM that Turner found himself wanting to reroute his approach. The upcoming album’s opening track, “Star Treatment,” exposes the inner turmoil Turner felt following the band’s arrival: “I just wanted to be one of The Strokes, now look at the mess you made me make,” he sings. Turner has no presence on social media outside of the band’s promotional- and informational-only posts - “Technology is worth keeping an eye on,” he warns - but says if he were to get on any of the apps, he’d likely just share Bukowski excerpts. On each LP since, Turner established himself as an ingenious lyricist who can cinematically capture a specific moment in time.Īll the while, he’s managed to fly relatively under the radar in the public eye, only adding to the allure of anything he’s released. chart history upon its release, and earned a Grammy nomination for best alternative music album. But there was a pressure, in that we step it up and do something different again - try and fly high.”Īrctic Monkeys have been flying high since the arrival of the band’s racing 2005 debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, which became the fastest-selling debut album in U.K. “With the commercial success of the last record,” he says with a pause - briefly tripping over the words “commercial success,” as if it were a foreign phrase - “I don’t think I felt the pressure of that hanging over the creative process. AM was sonically different from 2011’s Suck It and See, and he was encouraged by that to take yet another turn.

Turner’s new instrumental playground resulted in Arctic Monkeys’ most ambitious album to date.

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