I've been looking at articles online and trying to find reviews to put into my blog. Here's a review I found from the NME website:
Arctic Monkeys front-man Alex Turner has spoken about the rap and hip-hop influence on the band's new album 'AM'.
The band's fifth studio album will be released on September 9 and features the singles 'R U Mine?' and 'Do I Wanna Know?'. Guests on the album include Queens Of The Stone Age front-man Josh Homme and former member of The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones.
Speaking in an exclusive interview in this week's NME, which is on newsstands tomorrow (August 1) or available digitally, Turner, when asked to describe what the new album sounds like, replied: "It 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." When asked how the band have managed to fuse hip-hop and rock successfully, Turner said his vision for the new album was to make it "sound less like four lads playing in a room this time". He added: "Essentially, that's what it is, but if you can find a way to manipulate the instruments or the sounds to the point where it sounds a bit like a hip-hop beat that'd be boss in your car, then I think there's something quite cool about that."
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