Arctic Monkeys Nearly Complete Second Album

Arctic Monkeys have almost completed recording their second album and have given an astute insight into how the album sounds.

The band spent the first part of December putting the finishing touches to the long-player in Liverpool.

Describing how they have approached this album differently to their debut, frontman Alex Turner said:  “With the last one everything was already written and it was just a case of recording. But with this we’ve been writing while we’ve been in the studio which I always thought would be difficult.

“We’ve also been getting more help from our producers, Mike Crossey and James Ford from Simian Mobile Disco who we’d worked with before on b-sides.”

Moving on to how the record sounds, he told The Sun: “It’s definitely different — a step on, I guess. We’re all better at playing us instruments. It’s as simple as that really.

“It’s a bit louder and a bit faster in places but we’ve still got the slow bits as well.”