Photo by Zackery Michael
Arctic Monkeys have announced their latest offering; a new studio album titled The Car, which will arrive on Oct. 21. The project serves as the follow-up to the English rock band’s 2018’s Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.
Like their 2018 project, The Car was written by frontman Alex Turner and produced by James Ford. The cover art for the project features an overhead view of a single car parked upon an open-top parking garage with tire marks from donuts taken by Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. The 10-track project includes a song entitled “Sculptures of Anything Goes” and another titled “I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am,” which the band premiered yesterday in Zurich.
The Car, which was recorded at Butley Priory in Suffolk, RAK Studios in London, and La Frette in Paris, is their first full-length studio project since Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino though it is notable they released Live at the Royal Albert Hall in 2020.
The group are planning to host a string of previously announced festival dates around the world, which you can find here.
The Car:
01 There’d Better Be a Mirrorball
02 I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am
03 Sculptures of Anything Goes
04 Jet Skis on the Moat
05 Body Paint
06 The Car
07 Big Ideas
08 Hello You
09 Mr Schwartz
10 Perfect Sense