AM

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Recorded at Hive Mind Studios in Brooklyn, NY, with the help of producer/arrangers Mike Buckley and Vincent Chiarito (both members of Charles Bradley's Extraordinaires) and crack team of a-list musicians, his upcoming album blends heavy arrangements and introspective lyrics with sophistication, leaving the listener in a blissful wash of wonderment. Over its 40 years in business, PIAS has grown to be one of the largest independently-owned music groups in the world, carving out its own in-house recorded music division PIAS [Recordings].

Arctic Monkeys - AM - Vinyl LP – Rough Trade

In the United Kingdom, Arctic Monkeys broke a record with AM, becoming the first independent-label band to debut at number one in the UK with their first five albums. The funk infused “I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am” is a personal standout as you really get to hear the full range of instrumentation through a decent setup. Dre beat, but we've given it an Ike Turner bowl-cut and sent it galloping across the desert on a Stratocaster", adding that it "sounds less like four lads playing in a room this time. You'll have to crank up the volume and when you do so, you'll be able to notice that this is also a noisy record, full of pops and surface noise from start to finish.Simon Harper of Clash magazine states: "Welding inspiration from hip-hop greats with rock's titans, AM is built upon portentous beats that are dark and intimidating, yet wickedly thrilling. Its success, however, rested on the two things that had always made them special: Alex Turner's wry way with words, and his way with a tune. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 36 reviews. NME hailed it the best album of the decade and, just a month after its release, ranked it 449 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Turner later revealed that the band had nearly titled the album The New Black, after a guitar amp they used in the recording process: "I got this old Rickenbacker thing that we recorded a lot through.

Arctic Monkeys - AM - (Vinyl LP) | Rough Trade

The fourth single to promote the album, " One for the Road", was released as a digital download and 7" vinyl on 9 December 2013.In August 2017, AM was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units over of a million units in the United States. One for the Road,” “ Arabella,” and “ Snap Out of It,” the album received widespread critical acclaim. By the end of the decade, according to NME, the album "became the soundtrack for countless nights out, hook-ups and comedowns in every town and city of this country". AM was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize for best album, [58] becoming the third Arctic Monkeys album to receive the nomination, after their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, and its follow-up, Favourite Worst Nightmare.