10. September 2013 By Walter Price 0

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Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’

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Arctic Monkeys opted to engage their audience with something new rather than regurgitate something from 2006. That seems to be Turner’s process when it comes to writing a new record: he always changes his approach. For his band’s latest album, AM, Turner emphasized post-production and the overall atmosphere of the recordings, working tightly with producer James Ford to make something that sounded “less like four lads playing in a room.” As a result, “[AM] sounds like a Dr. Dre beat, but we’ve given it an Ike Turner bowl-cut and sent it galloping across the desert on a Stratocaster,” Turner told NME. In a sense, AM is R&B with riffs.  (Review by Jon Hadusek COS.com)

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