Arctic Monkeys: AM [DOMINO]

Why you'll love it

AM won British Album of the Year at the 2014 Brit Awards, was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and still sells week in, week out at both our shops. "Do I Wanna Know?", "R U Mine?", "Arabella" and "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?" all live here.

This edition

• Single LP, 12 tracks
• Domino pressing with the original sound-wave cover art
• Produced by James Ford, with Josh Homme guesting

About the album

Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys decided to shake things up a wee bit in the studio for their fifth album, 2013's AM, but instead of alienating longtime fans by suddenly rocketing off in a number of unforeseen directions at once (psych and stoner-rock, hip-hop-shocked R&B and soul), the quartet notched what doggedly remains its most popular recorded offering to date on both European and North American shores.

AM just never stops selling, probably because it's deep enough to keep offering something fresh to longtime Arctic Monkeys fans the more they go back for repeat listens, but also because even people who don't consider themselves Arctic Monkeys fans will generally find something amidst the genre-blurring fun going on here to make them Arctic Monkeys fans. It's just that kinda record. And, hey, Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age makes an appearance, too. As they say in the music business, AM has legs.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Domino (cat# WIGLP317), first out in 2013.